Learning and memory tasks are associated with the addition of synapses in the brain, but the function of this structural plasticity is not clear. A study of the rearrangement of circuits within the hippocampus and cerebellum in response to learning reveals a robust, long-lasting and reversible rise in the number of synapses that trigger feedforward inhibition. This growth has a crucial role in maintaining the precision of the memory and the learned behaviour.
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