McClelland et al. (1995)

Why there are complementary learning systems in the hippocampus and neocortex: Insights from the successes and failures of connectionist models of learning and memory.

Psychological Review, 102(3), 419-457

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Abstract

Proposes that memories are first stored via rapid synaptic change in the hippocampal system, that these changes support reinstatement of recent memories in neocortex, that neocortical connections change only slightly on each reinstatement, and that remote memory rests on the accumulation of those small changes. Connectionist models are used to argue that networks discover the structure shared across an ensemble of items only when learning is gradual and interleaved with other items, so a hippocampal system is needed to permit rapid learning of new items without disrupting that structure.

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McClelland, J. L., McNaughton, B. L., & O'Reilly, R. C. (1995). Why there are complementary learning systems in the hippocampus and neocortex: Insights from the successes and failures of connectionist models of learning and memory. Psychological Review, 102(3), 419–457. https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-295X.102.3.419

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