Graphic of Memories (IMAGE)

University of California - San Diego

Graphic of Memories

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In this representation of memories, sleep represents a period when the human brain can consolidate old memories with new memories, without loss of learning. In artificial neural networks, new information can overwrite old information, known as catastrophic forgetting.

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Golden, R. et al. 2022, PLOS Computational Biology

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