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Memory Processing in the Nervous System

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The central and peripheral nervous systems manage information processing associated with cognition and behavior and information transmission from/to sensory and effector organs, respectively. Memory, which is the process by which information is encoded, stored, and retrieved, has been extensively studied from the molecular to the whole-organ level. Memory function is managed by multiple parallel neural systems across multiple spatio-temporal scales. Recently, neuroscience data measured by various methods start to be collected to organize big data. New analyses using these data can provide a deeper understanding of information processing in the nervous system. Computational theory is expected to play a dominant role in integrating memory data with knowledge collected from other scientific domains.

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    NEURON Software. Available via https://www.neuron.yale.edu/neuron/

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    GENESIS Software. Available via http://genesis-sim.org/

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    Naoyuki Sato

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Sato, N. (2017). Memory Processing in the Nervous System. In: Schuster, A. (eds) Understanding Information. Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59090-5_5

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