Memory's Highway, a research monograph from the Center for
Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, at UC Irvine is now available by
anonymous ftp://ics.uci.edu/pub/jose/MH93 (IP 128.195.1.1).
The contents of the README file are enclosed below.
We hope you will find it interesting and thought provoking.
Comments are welcome at jambros@ics.uci.edu.
Jose A. Ambros-Ingerson
Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory
University of California email: jambros@ics.uci.edu
Irvine CA, 92717-3800 Voice:(714)824-2625; FAX:(714)824-8481
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Memory's Highway:
Brain rules for encoding and organizing information
Gary Lynch and Jose Ambros-Ingerson, 1993.
To facilitate transfer and printing the 51 page postscript document
has been broken into 5 parts (of approx 10 pages each) and compressed
using gzip.
Outline
Neurons and Synapses
(organization according to time)
Finding the substrates of memory
Strengthening connections between cortical cells
Pharmacology of memory
A brain rhythm that activates the substrates of memory
Learning rules in brain
Simple Cortical Networks
(organization according to physical similarity)
Recognizing known objects in a noisy environment
Classifying things as being the same {\em and} different
Learning rules and the capacity of memory
Chains of Networks Leaving the Cortex
(three additional types of memory)
Multiple forms of memory
Hippocampus: memory and time
Amygdala: memory and emotion
Striatal system: memory and action
Memory Networks in Neocortex
(recall and episodes)
Basic features of neocortical design
Elaborations of cortical designs in big brains
Neocortex and the problem of recall
Role of abstractions in the recall process
Using recall to classify things according to function
Strings of memories: episodes
Summary
Markers on time's arrow
Categories
The three-fold path
Origins of the inner monologue
In memory's house there are no mirrors