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From: Randomly fluctuating neural connections may implement a consolidation mechanism that explains classic memory laws

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Illustration of the main principles of the model. (a) Example of five connection states with approximate drawings of spine shapes and two transition probabilities. (b) A new memory, mapping three input to twenty output neurons, initially with many weak (State 2) connections. (c) The same memory at a much later time: most connections have disappeared, and a few have become strong (States 4 and 5) due to random fluctuations.

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