p228fig05.37 A macrocircuit of the neurotrophic Spectrally Timed ART, or nSTART, model. I developed nSTART with my PhD student Daniel Franklin.  It proposes how adaptively timed learning in the hippocampus, bolstered by Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor, or BDNF, helps to ensure normal memory consolidation.<BR>||  habituative gates, CS, US, Thalamus (sensory cortex, category learning, conditioned reinforcer learning, adaptively time learning and BDNF), Amygdala (incentive motivation learning), Hippocampus (BDNF), Prefrontal Cortex (attention), Pontine nuclei, Cerebellum (adaptively timed motor learning)