Neural plasticity and behavior – sixty years of conceptual advances

This brief review summarizes 60 years of conceptual advances that have demonstrated a role for active changes in neuronal connectivity as a controller of behavior and behavioral change. Seminal studies in the first phase of the six‐decade span of this review firmly established the cellular basis of behavior – a concept that we take for granted now, but which was an open question at the time. Hebbian plasticity, including long‐term potentiation...