Memory and learning

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Keeping information, revisiting it, retrieving it and reusing earlier experience.

14 problems

16 total

Experiences leave lasting changes in the brain. How do those changes form a memory that can be preserved, revised, and retrieved later?

We can hold information briefly after it disappears. Which neural processes keep it available for the next action?

A behavioral outcome depends on many neurons. How does learning change the particular cells and connections responsible for it?

Relearning a movement adjustment can be faster than learning it first. Which memories and processes produce that advantage?

While an animal pauses, its brain can rapidly replay activity associated with routes. What does that replay causally accomplish?

A familiar room or obstacle can be reused in a new layout. How does the brain combine known parts into a useful map?