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Optimal learning rules for familiarity detection

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Greve A, Sterratt DC, Donaldson D, Willshaw DJ & van Rossum MCW (2009) Optimal learning rules for familiarity detection. Biological Cybernetics, 100 (1), pp. 11-19. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00422-008-0275-4

Abstract
It has been suggested that the mammalian memory system has both familiarity and recollection components. Recently, a high-capacity network to store familiarity has been proposed. Here we derive analytically the optimal learning rule for such a familiarity memory using a signalto- noise ratio analysis. We find that in the limit of large networks the covariance rule, known to be the optimal local, linear learning rule for pattern association, is also the optimal learning rule for familiarity discrimination. The capacity is independent of the sparseness of the patterns, as long as the patterns have a fixed number of bits set. The corresponding information capacity is 0.057 bits per synapse, less than typically found for associative networks.

Keywords
Familiarity; Learning; Memory; Memory Recognition (Psychology); Memory Recollection (Psychology); Meaning (Psychology)

Journal
Biological Cybernetics: Volume 100, Issue 1

StatusPublished
Publication date31/01/2009
URLhttp://hdl.handle.net/1893/1411
PublisherSpringer
ISSN0340-1200