How adult brains learn the new without forgetting the old

They keep a stock of unused synapses in reserve, to be activated as needed


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  • 12 7, 2022
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Learning new things is hard. Remembering what has already been learned is harder. Any successful learning system, be it a brain or a piece of artificial-intelligence software, must strike the right balance between stability and flexibility. It must be stable enough to remember important old things yet flexible enough to learn new ones without destroying old memory traces—preferably for as long as it exists.

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