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Building a realistic, scalable memory model with independent engrams using a homeostatic mechanism

Kaster, Marvin ; Czappa, Fabian ; Butz-Ostendorf, Markus ; Wolf, Felix (2024)
Building a realistic, scalable memory model with independent engrams using a homeostatic mechanism.
In: Frontiers in Neuroinformatics, 18
doi: 10.3389/fninf.2024.1323203
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Kurzbeschreibung (Abstract)

Memory formation is usually associated with Hebbian learning and synaptic plasticity, which changes the synaptic strengths but omits structural changes. A recent study suggests that structural plasticity can also lead to silent memory engrams, reproducing a conditioned learning paradigm with neuron ensembles. However, this study is limited by its way of synapse formation, enabling the formation of only one memory engram. Overcoming this, our model allows the formation of many engrams simultaneously while retaining high neurophysiological accuracy, e.g., as found in cortical columns. We achieve this by substituting the random synapse formation with the Model of Structural Plasticity. As a homeostatic model, neurons regulate their activity by growing and pruning synaptic elements based on their current activity. Utilizing synapse formation based on the Euclidean distance between the neurons with a scalable algorithm allows us to easily simulate 4 million neurons with 343 memory engrams. These engrams do not interfere with one another by default, yet we can change the simulation parameters to form long-reaching associations. Our model's analysis shows that homeostatic engram formation requires a certain spatiotemporal order of events. It predicts that synaptic pruning precedes and enables synaptic engram formation and that it does not occur as a mere compensatory response to enduring synapse potentiation as in Hebbian plasticity with synaptic scaling. Our model paves the way for simulations addressing further inquiries, ranging from memory chains and hierarchies to complex memory systems comprising areas with different learning mechanisms.

Typ des Eintrags: Artikel
Erschienen: 2024
Autor(en): Kaster, Marvin ; Czappa, Fabian ; Butz-Ostendorf, Markus ; Wolf, Felix
Art des Eintrags: Bibliographie
Titel: Building a realistic, scalable memory model with independent engrams using a homeostatic mechanism
Sprache: Englisch
Publikationsjahr: 19 April 2024
Ort: Lausanne
Verlag: Frontiers Media S.A.
Titel der Zeitschrift, Zeitung oder Schriftenreihe: Frontiers in Neuroinformatics
Jahrgang/Volume einer Zeitschrift: 18
Kollation: 21 Seiten
DOI: 10.3389/fninf.2024.1323203
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Kurzbeschreibung (Abstract):

Memory formation is usually associated with Hebbian learning and synaptic plasticity, which changes the synaptic strengths but omits structural changes. A recent study suggests that structural plasticity can also lead to silent memory engrams, reproducing a conditioned learning paradigm with neuron ensembles. However, this study is limited by its way of synapse formation, enabling the formation of only one memory engram. Overcoming this, our model allows the formation of many engrams simultaneously while retaining high neurophysiological accuracy, e.g., as found in cortical columns. We achieve this by substituting the random synapse formation with the Model of Structural Plasticity. As a homeostatic model, neurons regulate their activity by growing and pruning synaptic elements based on their current activity. Utilizing synapse formation based on the Euclidean distance between the neurons with a scalable algorithm allows us to easily simulate 4 million neurons with 343 memory engrams. These engrams do not interfere with one another by default, yet we can change the simulation parameters to form long-reaching associations. Our model's analysis shows that homeostatic engram formation requires a certain spatiotemporal order of events. It predicts that synaptic pruning precedes and enables synaptic engram formation and that it does not occur as a mere compensatory response to enduring synapse potentiation as in Hebbian plasticity with synaptic scaling. Our model paves the way for simulations addressing further inquiries, ranging from memory chains and hierarchies to complex memory systems comprising areas with different learning mechanisms.

Freie Schlagworte: learning, memory, homeostatic plasticity, structural plasticity, scalable
ID-Nummer: Artikel-ID: 1323203
Sachgruppe der Dewey Dezimalklassifikatin (DDC): 000 Allgemeines, Informatik, Informationswissenschaft > 004 Informatik
600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften > 610 Medizin, Gesundheit
Fachbereich(e)/-gebiet(e): 20 Fachbereich Informatik
20 Fachbereich Informatik > Parallele Programmierung
Hinterlegungsdatum: 16 Mai 2024 15:37
Letzte Änderung: 16 Mai 2024 15:37
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