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Memories are stored, at least partly, as patterns of strong synapses. Given molecular turnover, how can synapses maintain strong for the years that memories can persist? Some models postulate that biochemical bistability maintains strong…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2015-04-09 Paul Smolen

The Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) have been originally designed to function like a biological neural network, but does an ANN really work in the same way as a biological neural network? As we know, the human brain holds information in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Usman Ahmad , Hong Song , Awais Bilal , Shahid Mahmood , Asad Ullah , Uzair Saeed

Learning to remember long sequences remains a challenging task for recurrent neural networks. Register memory and attention mechanisms were both proposed to resolve the issue with either high computational cost to retain memory…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-10-04 Wei Zhang , Bowen Zhou

A fundamental problem in neuroscience is understanding how working memory -- the ability to store information at intermediate timescales, like 10s of seconds -- is implemented in realistic neuronal networks. The most likely candidate…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2015-05-13 Yasser Roudi , Peter E. Latham

Natural memories are associative, declarative and distributed. Symbolic computing memories resemble natural memories in their declarative character, and information can be stored and recovered explicitly; however, they lack the associative…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Luis A. Pineda , Gibrán Fuentes , Rafael Morales

Recent advances at the intersection of control theory, neuroscience, and machine learning have revealed novel mechanisms by which dynamical systems perform computation. These advances encompass a wide range of conceptual, mathematical, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Arthur N. Montanari , Francesco Bullo , Dmitry Krotov , Adilson E. Motter

Recent research has established a connection between modern Hopfield networks (HNs) and transformer attention heads, with guarantees of exponential storage capacity. However, these models still face challenges scaling storage efficiently.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Saul Santos , António Farinhas , Daniel C. McNamee , André F. T. Martins

The most widely accepted view of memory in the brain holds that synapses are the storage sites of memory, and that memories are formed through associative modification of synapses. This view has been challenged on conceptual and empirical…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-09-13 Samuel J. Gershman

Associative memory is a fundamental function in the brain. Here, we generalize the standard associative memory model to include long-range Hebbian interactions at the learning stage, corresponding to a large synaptic integration window. In…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-12-21 Jianwen Zhou , Zijian Jiang , Tianqi Hou , Ziming Chen , K Y Michael Wong , Haiping Huang

Within the scientific research community, memory information in the brain is commonly believed to be stored in the synapse - a hypothesis famously attributed to psychologist Donald Hebb. However, there is a growing minority who postulate…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-12-13 James Tee , Desmond P. Taylor

Associative memory, traditionally modeled by Hopfield networks, enables the retrieval of previously stored patterns from partial or noisy cues. Yet, the local computational principles which are required to enable this function remain…

The human brain is the most powerful and efficient machine in existence today, surpassing in many ways the capabilities of modern computers. Currently, lines of research in neuromorphic engineering are trying to develop hardware that mimics…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Daniel Casanueva-Morato , Alvaro Ayuso-Martinez , Juan P. Dominguez-Morales , Angel Jimenez-Fernandez , Gabriel Jimenez-Moreno

Spin-glass models of associative memories are a cornerstone between statistical physics and theoretical neuroscience. In these networks, stochastic spin-like units interact through a synaptic matrix shaped by local Hebbian learning. In…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-04-08 Gianni V. Vinci , Andrea Galluzzi , Maurizio Mattia

In recent years, several studies have provided insight on the functioning of the brain which consists of neurons and form networks via interconnection among them by synapses. Neural networks are formed by interconnected systems of neurons,…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-01-22 Martin C. Nwadiugwu

The quadratic complexity of self-attention mechanism presents a significant impediment to applying Transformer models to long sequences. This work explores computational principles derived from astrocytes-glial cells critical for biological…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Md Zesun Ahmed Mia , Malyaban Bal , Abhronil Sengupta

In the rapidly advancing field of neuromorphic computing, integrating biologically-inspired models like the Leaky Integrate-and-Fire Astrocyte (LIFA) into spiking neural networks (SNNs) enhances system robustness and performance. This paper…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Aybars Yunusoglu , Dexter Le , Murat Isik , I. Can Dikmen , Teoman Karadag

The quintessential property of neuronal systems is their intensive patterns of selective synaptic connections. The current work describes a physics-based approach to neuronal shape modeling and synthesis and its consideration for the…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2009-11-10 Luciano da Fontoura Costa , Regina Celia Coelho

The energetics of cerebral activity critically relies on the functional and metabolic interactions between neurons and astrocytes. Important open questions include the relation between neuronal versus astrocytic energy demand, glucose…

We consider two models of Hopfield-like associative memory with $q$-valued neurons: Potts-glass neural network (PGNN) and parametrical neural network (PNN). In these models neurons can be in more than two different states. The models have…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 B. V. Kryzhanovsky , L. B. Litinskii , A. L. Mikaelian

The Internet of Bio-Nano-Things is a new paradigm that can bring novel remotely controlled actuation and sensing techniques inside the human body. Towards precise bionano sensing techniques in the brain, we investigate the challenges of…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Michael Taynnan Barros , Walisson Silva , Carlos Danilo Miranda Regis