Can sleep protect memories from catastrophic forgetting?

Continual learning remains an unsolved problem in artificial neural networks. The brain has evolved mechanisms to prevent catastrophic forgetting of old knowledge during new training. Building upon data suggesting the importance of sleep in learning and memory, we tested a hypothesis that sleep prot...

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Published in:eLife
Main Authors: Oscar C González, Yury Sokolov, Giri P Krishnan, Jean Erik Delanois, Maxim Bazhenov
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2020-08-01
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Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/51005