Per Learning or How to become unpopular in 5 minutes

1/30/02


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Per Learning or How to become unpopular in 5 minutes

What is the problem?

Learning & memory: a complex or a complicated problem?

We don’t know the solution!

If A and B succeed together to fire the neuron (often enough) synapse B will be reinforced

Steps of Long-Term Potentiation

What is wrong with LTP?

How difficult would be to learn without LTP?

Self-organized learning: toy model*

How it works on a simple task

How it scales with brain size

How it scales with problem size (on the parity problem)

A simple gizmo

Synaptic landscape is always rough

Summing up:

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Author: James P. Crutchfield