In the given diagram, there is a region of interest that is circled, which shows a synapse between a sensory neuron and an interneuron. Explain the importance of events occurring in this region.
What will be an ideal response?
This is showing the mechanism for classical conditioning. Touching the mantle (the CS) is always followed by a shock to the tail (the US). The sensory neurons for the CS onto the motor neuron is circled, and one can see that the facilitating neuron has a presynaptic feedback onto the CS sensory neuron. The facilitating neuron as postsynaptic to the US sensory signal, as is the motor neuron, and it is this circled presynaptic signal onto the CS neuron that mediates classical conditioning.
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