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Gregorio Zlotnik, Aaron Vansintjan
Recent developments in science and technology point to the need to unify, and extend, the definition of memory. On the one hand, molecular neurobiology has shown that memory is largely a neuro-chemical process, which includes conditioning and any form of stored experience. On the other hand, information technology has…
L. Bonetti, E. Risgaard Olsen, F. Carlomagno, E. Serra + 8 more
Memory is a crucial cognitive process involving several subsystems: sensory memory (SM), short-term memory (STM), working memory (WM), and long-term memory (LTM). While each has been extensively studied, the interaction between WM and LTM, particularly in relation to predicting temporal sequences, remains largely…
Yosif Zaki, Denise J. Cai
Many studies have shown that memories are encoded in sparse neural ensembles distributed across the brain. During the post-encoding period, often during sleep, many of the cells that were active during encoding are reactivated, supporting consolidation of this memory. During memory recall, many of the same cells that…
Jason R. Finley
What is human memory? Evidence from cognitive psychology and neuroscience supports the view that human memory is composed of multiple subsystems. The influential “modal model” of the late 1960s proposed a sensory register, short-term store, and long-term store. Refinements and expansions to this taxonomy followed…
Alain de Cheveigné
A raAonal theory of memory is proposed to explain how we can accommodate unbounded sensory input within bounded storage space. Memory is stored as staAsAcs, organized into complex structures that are repeatedly summarized and compressed to make room for new input. This process, driven by space constraints, is guided by…
Savya Khosla, Zhen Zhu, Yifie He
This paper explores Memory-Augmented Neural Networks (MANNs), delving into how they blend human-like memory processes into AI. It covers different memory types, like sensory, short-term, and long-term memory, linking psychological theories with AI applications. The study investigates advanced architectures such as…
Jean-Christophe Cassel, Daniel Cassel, Lilianne Manning
Over the last half century, neuropsychologists, cognitive psychologists and cognitive neuroscientists interested in human memory have accumulated evidence showing that there is not one general memory function but a variety of memory systems deserving distinct (but for an organism, complementary) functional entities.…
Jie Zhang
The ability to form memories is a basic feature of learning and accumulating knowledge. But where is memory information stored in the brain? Within the scientific research community, it is generally believed that memory information is stored in the synapse. However, this widely accepted dogma has been challenged by…
Roselyne J. Chauvin, Annie Zheng, Athanasia Metoki, Samuel R. Krimmel + 19 more
Memory athletes can achieve superior performance (e.g., memorizing 339 digits in 5 minutes) with extensive daily training, by converting abstract information into vivid scenes, and placing them along a mental path, that is then retraced at recall (Method of Loci). Understanding the brain mechanisms underlying such…
Yaxiong Wu, Sheng Liang, Chen Zhang, Yichao Wang + 4 more
'Huifeng Guo' 'Ruiming Tang' 'Yong Liu'] Memory is the process of encoding, storing, and retrieving information, allowing humans to retain experiences, knowledge, skills, and facts over time, and serving as the foundation for growth and effective interaction with the world. It plays a crucial role in shaping our…
Oliver Hardt, Wayne S. Sossin
A number of observations in recent years demonstrates that across all levels of organization, memory is inherently fluid. On the cognitive-behavioral level, the innocent act of remembering can irrevocably alter the contents of established long-term memories, while the content of dormant long-term memories that is…
Alvaro Pastor
Humans have long been fascinated by how memories are formed, how they can be damaged or lost, or still seem vibrant after many years. Thus the search for the locus and organization of memory has had a long history, in which the notion that is is composed of distinct systems developed during the second half of the 20th…
Max A. Kramer, Martin N. Hebart, Chris I. Baker, Wilma A. Bainbridge
What makes certain images more memorable than others? While much of memory research has focused on participant effects, recent studies employing a stimulus-centric perspective have sparked debate on the determinants of memory, including the roles of semantic and visual features and whether the most prototypical or…
Emma Megla, Samuel R. Rosenthal, Wilma A. Bainbridge
Time has an immense influence on our memory. Truncated encoding leads to memory for only the ‘gist’ of an image, and long delays before recall result in generalized memories with few details. Here, we used crowdsourced scoring of hundreds of drawings made from memory after variable encoding (Experiment 1) and…
Bastian Wiederhold
As anyone who has tried to memorize a one-hundred-digit number can attest, acquisition of numerical information typically proceeds at less than one bit/s. If human memory operated at this speed in general, even a simple conversation would not be possible. Indeed, through techniques such as the memory palace, which…
Christopher Jude McCarroll
What is the relation between episodic memory and episodic (or experiential) imagination? According to the causal theory of memory, memory differs from imagination because remembering entails the existence of a continuous causal connection between one’s original experience of an event and one’s subsequent memory, a…
Zihong He, Weizhe Lin, Hao Zheng, Fan Zhang + 6 more
In 1968, Atkinson et al. summarized the concept of "short-term storage" based on previous research findings. These findings included the work of Peterson et al. , who observed variations in participants' ability to recall consonant letters1 at different time intervals, and Milner et al. , who discovered that patients…
Haoyu Chen, Benchi Wang, Geoffrey F Woodman
It has been proposed that certain objects in our environment are inherently memorable due to fundamental similarities in how the human brain stores this visual information. Here we tested this hypothesis by having two groups of participants from opposite sides of the planet remember pictures of objects shown…
Kazunori D Yamada
Artificial intelligence that accumulates knowledge and presents it to users has the potential to become a vital ally for humanity. It is thought to be advantageous for such artificial intelligence to have the capability to continually accumulate knowledge while operating, as opposed to needing to relearn each time new…
Cayden Pierce, Stephen Mann
—Human memory prioritizes the storage and recall of information that is emotionally-arousing and/or important in a process known as value-directed memory. When experiencing a stream of information (e.g. conversation, book, lecture, etc.), the individual makes conscious and subconscious value assessments of the incoming…
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This paper develops a comprehensive theoretical framework for designing quantum memory systems with enhanced resilience to thermal decoherence through engineered lattice geometries and protective structures. We formulate a unified mathematical description connecting material properties, geometric configurations, and…
Pierfrancesco Ombrini, Qidi Wang, Alexandros Vasileiadis, Fangting Wu + 6 more
Effective optimization and control of lithium-ion batteries cannot neglect the relation between fundamental physicochemical phenomena and performance. In this work, we apply a multi-step charging protocol to commercially relevant electrodes, such as LiNi0.8Mn0.1Co0.1O2 (NMC811), LiFePO4 (LFP), LiMn1.5Ni0.5O4 (LMNO)…
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Large Language Models (LLMs) based on transformer architectures excel at internet-scale tasks. However, real-world scientific scenarios—such as synthetic chemistry laboratories and autonomous experimental setups—typically involve incremental data generation in batches as new chemical reactions are conducted, unlike…
Rumiana Tenchov, Janet Sasso, Qiongqiong Angela Zhou
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by cognitive decline, memory loss, and impaired daily functioning. The pathology of AD is marked by the accumulation of amyloid-beta plaques and tau protein tangles in brain, along with neuroinflammation and synaptic dysfunction. Genetic…
Jeff Guo, Philippe Schwaller
Sample efficiency is a fundamental challenge in de novo molecular design. Ideally, molecular generative models should learn to satisfy desired objectives under minimal oracle evaluations (computational prediction or wet-lab experiment). This problem becomes more apparent when using oracles that can provide increased…
Jeff Guo, Philippe Schwaller
Sample efficiency is a fundamental challenge in de novo molecular design. Ideally, molecular generative models should learn to satisfy desired objectives under minimal oracle evaluations (computational prediction or wet-lab experiment). This problem becomes more apparent when using oracles that can provide increased…