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ArticleNature communications2023

Tomography of memory engrams in self-organizing nanowire connectomes.

Gianluca Milano, Alessandro Cultrera, Luca Boarino, Luca Callegaro, Carlo Ricciardi

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Article in Nature communications, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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Gianluca MilanoAdvanced Materials Metrology and Life Sciences Division, INRiM (Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica), Strada delle Cacce 91, 10135, Torino, Italy. g.milano@inrim.it.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1983-6516
Alessandro CultreraQuantum Metrology and Nanotechnologies Division, INRiM (Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica), Strada delle Cacce 91, 10135, Torino, Italy.
Luca BoarinoAdvanced Materials Metrology and Life Sciences Division, INRiM (Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica), Strada delle Cacce 91, 10135, Torino, Italy.
Luca CallegaroQuantum Metrology and Nanotechnologies Division, INRiM (Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica), Strada delle Cacce 91, 10135, Torino, Italy.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5997-9960
Carlo RicciardiDepartment of Applied Science and Technology, Politecnico di Torino, C.so Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129, Torino, Italy. carlo.ricciardi@polito.it.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4703-7949

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Self-organizing memristive nanowire connectomes have been exploited for physical (in materia) implementation of brain-inspired computing paradigms. Despite having been shown that the emergent behavior relies on weight plasticity at single junction/synapse level and on wiring plasticity involving topological changes, a shift to multiterminal paradigms is needed to unveil dynamics at the network level. Here, we report on tomographical evidence of memory engrams (or memory traces) in nanowire connectomes, i.e., physicochemical changes in biological neural substrates supposed to endow the representation of experience stored in the brain. An experimental/modeling approach shows that spatially correlated short-term plasticity effects can turn into long-lasting engram memory patterns inherently related to network topology inhomogeneities. The ability to exploit both encoding and consolidation of information on the same physical substrate would open radically new perspectives for in materia computing, while offering to neuroscientists an alternative platform to understand the role of memory in learning and knowledge.

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