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ArticleeLife2021

Continuous attractors for dynamic memories.

Davide Spalla, Isabel Maria Cornacchia, Alessandro Treves

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Article in eLife, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Davide SpallaSISSA - Cognitive Neuroscience, Via Bonomea, Trieste, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-0328-6476
Isabel Maria CornacchiaSISSA - Cognitive Neuroscience, Via Bonomea, Trieste, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-0704-7480
Alessandro TrevesSISSA - Cognitive Neuroscience, Via Bonomea, Trieste, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-7246-5673

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Episodic memory has a dynamic nature: when we recall past episodes, we retrieve not only their content, but also their temporal structure. The phenomenon of replay, in the hippocampus of mammals, offers a remarkable example of this temporal dynamics. However, most quantitative models of memory treat memories as static configurations, neglecting the temporal unfolding of the retrieval process. Here, we introduce a continuous attractor network model with a memory-dependent asymmetric component in the synaptic connectivity, which spontaneously breaks the equilibrium of the memory configurations and produces dynamic retrieval. The detailed analysis of the model with analytical calculations and numerical simulations shows that it can robustly retrieve multiple dynamical memories, and that this feature is largely independent of the details of its implementation. By calculating the storage capacity, we show that the dynamic component does not impair memory capacity, and can even enhance it in certain regimes.

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Memory, EpisodicModels, BiologicalNeural Networks, Computercomputational biologycontinuous attractorsmemoryneural dynamicsneurosciencenonesystems biology

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PMID34520345
PMCPMC8439658

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