Question

When the gill-withdrawal reflex of the sea snail aplysia has been successfully conditioned to a stimulus such as a squirt of water from a waterpik, observed changes in the neural circuit include: an increase in the number of synapses. a decrease in the number of synapses. cell death?

Answer 1

The answer in this question is an increase in the number of synapses. The changes that observe in the neural circuit when the gill-withdrawal reflex of the sea snail Aplysia has been successfully conditioned to a stimulus such as squirt of water from a Waterpik include an increase in the number of synapses.