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Neuroscience of Memory
The most fundamental brain function”
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Neuroscience of Memory

“The most fundamental brain function”

Objective:

Introduce basic concepts related to memory explain what long- and short-term memory is and the neural substrates of memory

Memory is an organisms capacity to retain

information about itself and its environment

Memory is an organisms capacity to retain

information about itself and its environment

“Neurons that fire together wire together”

“Neurons that fire together wire together”

Convergence enables synthesis,

and divergence enables analysis

Recurrent connections enables sustained

excitation or inhibition

A neural network can contain smaller networks, and a network can be a part of many larger networks

A neural network can contain smaller networks, and a network can be a part of many larger networks

“Humans are born as immortal souls that bathe in infinite and complete knowledge which only can be attained by introspection and reason” Plato (428 – 348 BCE)

“Humans are born as blank slates (“tabulae rasae”) Memories are formed through experience, like imprints on wax tablets” Aristotle (384 - 322 BCE)

Phyletic memories are formed through

evolution and are genetically determined

Ontogenetic memories are formed

within the life time of a single organism