Tse et al. (2007)

Schemas and Memory Consolidation

Science, 316(5821), 76-82

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Abstract

Reports that systems consolidation can occur very rapidly when an associative schema is already in place. Rats learned flavor-place paired associates in an event arena over several weeks; once a putative neocortical schema had developed, new associations trained on a single trial became assimilated and rapidly hippocampus-independent. Schemas also played a causal role, since the same rapid learning did not occur in an unfamiliar arena or under an inconsistent flavor-to-place mapping.

Reference

Tse, D., Langston, R. F., Kakeyama, M., Bethus, I., Spooner, P. A., Wood, E. R., Witter, M. P., & Morris, R. G. M. (2007). Schemas and memory consolidation. Science, 316(5821), 76–82. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1135935

What Rests on This

2 mechanisms cite this source. Each finding below is quoted as it appears on that mechanism's own page.

Schema Formation Representational Structures

Neural substrate

Rats that had built a schema of flavour-place associations over weeks of training learned new associations that fit it in a single trial, and those new memories rapidly became independent of the hippocampus, showing that an existing schema speeds consolidation into the neocortex

Schema Application Representational Structures

Neural substrate

In rats that had learned a spatial schema of flavour-place pairings, new pairings were learned in a single trial and quickly became independent of the hippocampus, showing that an existing schema speeds the integration of new information