Topic: associative memory plasticity

Humans can robustly store and retrieve information with complex and hierarchical structure. Some ex- amples are temporal sequences, where each event is associated to a particular time, episodic memories where each event is associated with a particular context, cognitive maps representing spatial environ- ments through landmarks associated with relative locations, and semantic structures in language in which meaning is conveyed through both the identity of individual words and their role in the sentence. While working memory tasks typically process one structure at a time, a long-term associati