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SUBMITTER: Gonzalez OC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7440920 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
González Oscar C OC Sokolov Yury Y Krishnan Giri P GP Delanois Jean Erik JE Bazhenov Maxim M
eLife 20200804
Continual learning remains an unsolved problem in artificial neural networks. The brain has evolved mechanisms to prevent catastrophic forgetting of old knowledge during new training. Building upon data suggesting the importance of sleep in learning and memory, we tested a hypothesis that sleep protects old memories from being forgotten after new learning. In the thalamocortical model, training a new memory interfered with previously learned old memories leading to degradation and forgetting of ...[more]