Time scales of memory, learning, and plasticity

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​Time scales of memory, learning, and plasticity​
Tetzlaff, C.; Kolodziejski, C.; Markelic, I. & Woergoetter, F.​ (2012) 
Biological Cybernetics106(11-12) pp. 715​-726​.​ DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00422-012-0529-z 

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Tetzlaff, Christian; Kolodziejski, Christoph; Markelic, Irene; Woergoetter, Florentin
Abstract
After only about 10 days would the storage capacity of our nervous system be reached if we stored every bit of input. The nervous system relies on at least two mechanisms that counteract this capacity limit: compression and forgetting. But the latter mechanism needs to know how long an entity should be stored: some memories are relevant only for the next few minutes, some are important even after the passage of several years. Psychology and physiology have found and described many different memory mechanisms, and these mechanisms indeed use different time scales. In this prospect we review these mechanisms with respect to their time scale and propose relations between mechanisms in learning and memory and their underlying physiological basis.
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2012
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published
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Springer
Journal
Biological Cybernetics 
Project
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/270273/EU//Xperience
Organization
Fakultät für Physik 
ISSN
1432-0770; 0340-1200

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