Memory consolidation and improvement by synaptic tagging and capture in recurrent neural networks

Abstract

Luboeinski and Tetzlaff develop a theoretical model, which integrates mechanisms underlying the synaptic-tagging-and-capture (STC) hypothesis with calcium-based synaptic plasticity in a recurrent spiking neural network, to describe consolidation of memory representations. They show that STC mechanisms cause improved memory recall, which may assist the understanding of storing information in biological and artificial neural circuits.