Video Short: A Memorable Snail
What can a spineless sea snail teach us about our brains and how memory works?
By Melissa Salpietra
With its extraordinarily large neurons, the marine snail Aplysia has long been a favorite subject for scientists studying the brain and how memory works. In this short video, David Glanzman, a neurobiologist at UCLA, shows what this spineless creature can teach us about our own brains and how we form both short- and long-term memories.