MEMORY

MEMORY

1. Learning

   • Why do we learn
     • Adaptive value.
     • Allows us to predict behaviour
   • Principals of learning
     • Law of deminishing returns
     • Memory gets better the more we learn
   • Rescorla-Wagner Rule
     • The amount you learn is proportional to the amount of surprise you felt
     • prediction error = surprise
     • Maps onto learning curve
     • Blocking
       • When outcome is fully predicted there is no learning
       • Bell -> food, Bell + lights -> food. No learning about light. Food allergies

2. Consolidation

3. Synaptic Plasticity

4. Extinction & Reconsolidation

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