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- Title
Cortical rewiring and information storage.
- Authors
Chklovskii, D B; Mel, B W; Svoboda, K
- Abstract
Current thinking about long-term memory in the cortex is focused on changes in the strengths of connections between neurons. But ongoing structural plasticity in the adult brain, including synapse formation/elimination and remodelling of axons and dendrites, suggests that memory could also depend on learning-induced changes in the cortical 'wiring diagram'. Given that the cortex is sparsely connected, wiring plasticity could provide a substantial boost in storage capacity, although at a cost of more elaborate biological machinery and slower learning.
- Publication
Nature, 2004, Vol 431, Issue 7010, p782
- ISSN
1476-4687
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1038/nature03012