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Biological Learning and Control: How the Brain Builds Representations, Predicts Events, and Makes Decisions

Reza Shadmehr and Sandro Mussa-Ivaldi

Print publication date: 2012

Print ISBN-13: 9780262016964

Published to MIT Press Scholarship Online: August 2013

DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9780262016964.001.0001

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The Multiple Timescales of Memory

The Multiple Timescales of Memory

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(p.225) 8 The Multiple Timescales of Memory
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Biological Learning and Control
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Reza Shadmehr

Sandro Mussa-Ivaldi

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The MIT Press
DOI:10.7551/mitpress/9780262016964.003.0009

This chapter addresses the multiple timescales of memory. It explains the savings and spontaneous recovery of memory. It shows that animals display patterns of learning and forgetting. The active and passive properties of memory are detailed. This chapter reveals that error-driven learning engaged processes that adapt with multiple timescales and that once practice ends and the memory is placed in a passive state, passage of time transforms some of the fast states into slower states that resist change when the task again resumes and the memory is reactivated. It illustrates that the multiple timescales of memory during classical conditioning are partly due to different rates of learning in the cerebellar cortex and nuclei.

Keywords:   multiple timescales, memory, savings, spontaneous recovery, error-driven learning, classical conditioning, cerebellar cortex, nuclei

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