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BI 127 Tomás Ryan: Memory, Instinct, and Forgetting

Brain Inspired

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The Memory Extinction Theory

The engram has to retain information a for years and potentially decades, of that memory not necessarily being activated. When we say that we observe forgetting, or we experience forgetting, it's based on an expectation about how a subject should behave under certain conditions. But the subject's brain may have a different idea of what is the most adaptive computation to make. And this is already well accepted in the memory extinction literature.

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