On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:24:40 +1000, "Entertained by my own EIMC"
<decoy from mindyaown.biz> wrote:
>"Christian Wilms" <usenet02 from out-of-phase.de> wrote in message
>news:1iifgvx.1y7rwd71anserqN%usenet02 from out-of-phase.de...>>> I think in general short-term plasticity refers to changes lasting
>> seconds and minutes, while long-term refers to changes lasting hours
>> (though 30 minutes is commonly considered to be long-enough-term for
>> experimental purposes ;)
>>That a brainscientist (presumably) can be so narrow-minded as to limit his
>definition of LTP to "hours" is *almost* unbelievable, to me.
>
What is unbelievable? I understood "hours" to mean "hours or more".