Statistical description of associative memory

INÉS SAMENGO

Modern Challenges in Statistical Mechanics

Melville

Lugar: New York; Año: 2003; p. 30 - 40

The storage of memories, in the brain, induces some kind of modification in the structural and functional properties of a neural network. Here, a few neuropsychological and neurophysiological experiments are reviewed, suggesting that the plastic changes taking place during memory storage are governed, among other things, by the correlations in the activity of a set of neurons. The Hopfield model is briefly described, showing the way the methods of statistical physics can be useful to describe the storage and retrieval of memories.