Topic: cued recall

Various working memory (WM) models based on a diverse set of biologically plausible synaptic and neural plasticity mechanisms have been proposed. We show that these proposed short-term plasticity mechanisms may not necessarily be competing explanations, but instead yield interesting functional interactions on a wide set of WM tasks and enhance the biological plausibility of spiking neural network models of WM. While reductionist models (WM explained by one particular mechanism) are theoretically appealing and have increased our understanding of specific mechanisms, they are insufficient. WM mo