Continuous vs. Batch learning

[Terry Sejnowski]

There is evidence that the hippocampus is doing something like
batch mode teaching for neocortex.  The hippocampus is needed for
one-shot learning, also called declarative or episodic learning.
It seems to be storing up a lot of examples and over a period of
months transfers this informaiton to cortex, where it is stored
in a more categorical representation.

Terry

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