Peng Tang

This study shows that heterosynaptic plasticity in the visuo-auditory projection requires CCK released from entorhinal cortex afferents to form associative memory.

This study shows that visuoauditory associations can be artificially implanted in rodents and retrieved in behavioral contexts, with cholecystokinin (CCK) playing a critical role in this process.

Presynaptic NMDA receptors control CCK release from entorhinal neurons, enabling neocortical LTP and sound-sound associative memory.