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citation?

• badosu 9y ago
  It's an analogy for the reinforcing characteristic of neuronal connections, would be perfectly adequate if not for the continuum vs discrete difference in the reinforcement mechanism.
• kylerpalmer 9y ago
  I don't know about the brain acting like a cache, but synaptic pathway weighting is thought to be modified by how often neurons on either side of it fire near the same time. This is called spike timing dependent plasticity (STDP). The seminal paper for this is: http://www.jneurosci.org/content/18/24/10464.long http://www.jneurosci.org/content/18/24/10464.long
• markshead 9y ago
  I was just saying that curves of how much is forgotten seem to look similar to a caching mechanism.