Chipping away at memory.
Inverse power-law behavior is known to be characteristic of adaptation, learning, and memory. Herein, we propose a phenomenological model of forgetting based on renewal theory that introduces a new psychophysical concept, chipping; discrete events that chip away at chunks of memory and thereby produce forgetting. The neural mechanism producing these chips is the 1/f-noise that is generically produced in complex neuronal networks.
US Army Research Office, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA. bruce.j.west@us.army.mil
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D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D008568:Memory; D008960:Models, Psychological