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The olfactory provides an ideal system to explore the proprieties of associative networks, like storage and retrieval of memory patterns, for a number of reasons: its principal cells share many of the fundamental proprieties with associative networks; the system is only one synapse away from its main sensory input, facilitating experimental manipulation in animals; and the olfactory cortex shares many similarities with other well-known associative systems of learning and memory, like the hippocampus.
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Associative Networks
Associative networks are among the most fundamental group of neural networks in the brain, enabling the storage, retrieval, and association of complex patterns of neuronal activation. These features, for instance, provide the brain the ability to correlate independent events, reconstruct previously learned patterns from fragmented or...
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de Almeida, L. (2013). Olfactory Cortical Associative Memory Models. In: Jaeger, D., Jung, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7320-6_618-3
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