Cognitive Architectures Memory and Learning Based on book

Cognitive Architectures Memory and Learning Based on book Cognition, Brain and Consciousness ed. Bernard J. Baars courses taught by Prof. Randall O'Reilly, University of Colorado, and Prof. Włodzisław Duch, Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika and http: //wikipedia. org/ http: //grey. colorado. edu/Comp. Cog. Neuro/index. php/CECN_CU_Boulder_OReilly http: //grey. colorado. edu/Comp. Cog. Neuro/index. php/Main_Page Janusz A. Starzyk EE 141 1

Introduction q Learning is the process by which we acquire knowledge about the world. q Learning involves memory to store representations that reflect experience, behavior and values. q q Human memory has surprising limitations and impressive capacities. Brain evolved around tasks of survival, thus it is well prepared to deal with ill-defined problems and challenges in real world. Its ability to remember academic information is quite recent and not as well developed in terms of storage capacities. Humans are exceptionally flexible in learning new skills. § It is amazing that practically the same brain was serving humans to live in the stone age and was able to learn the skills needed in the age of 2 computers and Internet. EE 141

Memory q q Memory is the process by which that knowledge of the world is encoded, stored, and later retrieved. (Kandel 2000) Memory storage involve synaptic changes in cortex. § Correlated activities between neurons leads to strengthening connections between them. q q Temporary cell activities maintain immediate memories. Medial temporal lobes (MTL) are important for building memories. 3 EE 141

General remarks Memory is any persistent effect of experience. Memory is seemingly uniform, but in reality it is very differentiated: spatial, visual, aural, recognition, declarative, semantic, procedural, explicit, implicit … Here we test mechanisms, so the primary division is: q Synaptic memory (physical changes in synapses), long-term and requiring activation to have some influence on functioning. q Dynamic memory, active, temporary activations, affects current functioning. q Long-term priming, based on synaptic memory, yielding to fast modification – semantic and procedural memory are the result of slow processes. 4 q Short-term priming, based on active memory. EE 141

General remarks Memory Types STM LTM Working memory Short term memory Long term memory Nondeclarative Declarative Facts Events Parietal cortex Prefrontal cortex Limbic system Manual skills Conditioning Emotional Nuclei Priming Motor Cerebellum Neocortex 5 EE 141

Memory q q q MTL (perirhinal cortex) include two hippocampi and olfactory area. MTL interacts with the higher level visual area: inferior temporal lobe (IT) Close to MTL is auditory cortex and amygdala responsible for emotions EE 141 6

Memory q Thus MTL (perirhinal cortex) integrates multiple brain inputs. q It is a “hub of hubs”. q Hippocampus combines cognitive information from neocortex with emotional information from limbic areas and bids this information into memory that codes consciously experienced events. 7 EE 141

Memory MTL helps to store and retrieve episodic memories. When visual cortex is activated by an image of the coffee cup it activates memory traces through MTL. q These include semantic associations of the coffee cup such as coffee beans or the coffee aroma. q Visual features like cup handle are also activated. q This may activate episodic memory of yesterday’s coffee with a friend 8 in cafeteria and traces of conversation. EE 141 q q

Memory Sensory input goes to working memory (WM). Working memory temporarily retains small amounts of information; only 4 -7 items can be held in immediate WM. q WM interacts with cognitive processes to perform explicit learning and retrieval as well as implicit learning. q Explicit learning involves semantic memory (facts), episodic memory (episodes) and perceptual memory (learning music, art). 9 q EE 141 Implicit memory (fear, habits, biases, goals) q q

Memory Explicit memory is first acquired through association areas of the cerebral cortex, namely prefrontal, limbic and parietooccipital-temporal. q Then, the information is transferred to parahippocampal cortex, entorhinal cortex dentate gyrus, hippocampus, subiculum and back to entorhinal cortex. q Damage to parahippocampal and entorhinal cortices produces greater deficits in memory storage for object recognition than does hippocampal damage. q Right hippocampal damage produces greater deficits in memory for spatial representation, whereas left hippocampal damage produces greater deficits in memory for words, objects or people. q In either case, the deficits are in formation of new, long-term memory; old memories are spared. q www. unmc. edu/physiology/Mann/mann 19. html EE 141 10

Memory The relative positions of parts of the limbic system involved in learning and memory. (Kandel, 2000 Principles of Neural Science. ) q Current thought is that the hippocampal system does the initial steps in long-term memory storage–different parts being more important for different kinds of memory. q The results of hippocampal machinations–presumably memories–are transferred to the association cortex for storage. www. unmc. edu/physiology/Mann/mann 19. html EE 141 11

Memory q Implicit memory contains procedural, emotional and motor skills. q Implicit memory is often tested using priming where subjects receive subconscious perceptual or conceptual information. q Perceptual memory refers to sensorimotor habits (skills) largely unconscious involving basal ganglia. § Imagine riding a bike and you start falling to the right – WHAT TO DO? § Conscious answer is to lean to the left (many cyclists say this) § However when they ride a bike they instead turn their handlebar in the direction of the fall, expressing unconscious procedural knowledge. 12 EE 141

Amnesia q Clive Wearing suffered a viral infection that destroyed hippocampi and some frontal lobe areas. q He retained his skills as musician, but he did not remember the most recent past. q Some of his short term memory was preserved so he could converse, and be aware of the present. q However he could not remember events from the recent past. § For instance he would talk to his wife and few minutes later he forgot she was there. § He couldn't register episodic or semantic memory. § Ne couldn't recall episodic memory. 13 EE 141

Amnesia q The most important patient in cognitive neuroscience is known as HM. q His medial temporal lobes were surgically removed by a surgeon who was unaware about their importance for memories. q HM cannot remember any events in his life after the surgery. q He even cannot recognize his face due to changes over the years. q He also suffers from retrograde amnesia and does not remember events from years immediately before surgery. q His other cognitive functions are intact: he can reason, solve problems 14 and carry normal conversation. EE 141

Amnesia q HM represents amnesia in its pure form. q In general amnesia is any loss of episodic memory with otherwise normal cognitive functions. q The causes include infections, stroke, tumor, drugs, oxygen depravation, epilepsy, degenerative disease (like Alzheimer) or be of psychogenic nature. q Amnesia results from damage to MTL including hippocampi and causes: § Impaired memory but preserved perception, cognition, intelligence, and action. § Impaired long term but not working memory – Amnesic people can perform normally on standard tests of intelligence – They can play chess, solve crossword puzzles, comprehend instructions, and reason logically § Impaired recent but not remote memories (anterograde amnesia). § Impaired explicit but not implicit memory – Learning, retention, and retrieval of memory without awareness is normal. 15 EE 141

Amnesia q Implicit and procedural memories are not damaged in amnesia. q Perceptual priming involve sensory cortex q Conceptual priming include word association. § Patients with amnesia perform well on perceptual and conceptual priming tasks § Patients with Alzheimer disease perform well on perceptual but not on conceptual priming tasks q Procedural memory depends on perceptual-motor regions like basal ganglia. § HM patient was able to learn and retain some motor tasks even he did not remember learning them. § Patients with impaired basal ganglia due to Parkinson’s or Huntington’s disease show not improvement after practicing sensorimotor tasks. q In serial time reaction (STR) tasks subjects are requested to retrace a series of dots on a computer screen § Amnesic patients do well on implicit STR task but poorly on explicit tasks. § Patients with basal ganglia disorders like Parkinson’s disease do poorly on both tasks 16 EE 141

How memories are made? q Traditional thinking of memory as a permanent record Memories Are Made Of Th of past events that can be played back, examined and retrieved is false. q Memories of past events are in fact rarely accurate. § Two people experiencing the same event may have different memories of it. q The process view, considers memory as a result of a dynamic process, a reconstruction of the past influenced by present, anticipation of future events and other cognitive processes. q We forgot most of what happened within minutes or hours and what remains is distorted by our knowledge and biases. § Try to reconstruct what you did two weeks ago with as much detail and exact order as you can. § Most of us will try to search for cues to figure out the sequence of events. EE 141 – Did I go shopping and which stores I visited? – What merchandise did I look at? 17

How memories are made? q You may confuse what happened two weeks ago with what happened some other time. § Patients with disorder called confabulation make up false memories without intention of lying or awareness that they are not true. q Memories influence how other memories are formed and retrieved. § They influence our thoughts and actions, and are influenced by them. q Stimulation of temporal lobe sometimes results in flood of conscious memories. One patient during brain stimulation experienced memory of: § At four electrodes location 1 -2 and 9 -10 re-experiencing Flinstone cartoons from childhood § At locations 8 -9 and 13 -14 hearing the rock band Pink Floyd. § At locations 9 -10 a baseball announcer. § At locations 7 -8 and 12 -13 a female voice singing. 18 EE 141

How memories are made? q What happens in the nervous system to produce habituation? § If the siphon of the animal (Aplysia californica ) is stimulated mechanically the animal withdraws the gill, presumably for protection. § That action is known to occur because the stimulus activates receptors in the siphon, which activates, directly or indirectly through an interneuron, the motoneuron that withdraws the gill. § This is a simple reflex circuit. q With repeated activation, the stimulus leads to a decrease in the number of dopamine-containing vesicles that release their contents onto the motor neuron EE 141 From . 19 www. unmc. edu/physiology/Mann/mann 19. html

How memories are made? Autobiographical memories evoked by temporal lobe stimulation 20 EE 141

How memories are made? q Possible explanation for this electrically stimulated recall of memories involves temporal lobe in neocortex. q If some neurons are activated in neocortex, this evokes an overlapping pattern of neural activation in hippocampal system (MTL). q The flow of information form neocortex to MTL causes hippocampal system to resonate with the original memory traces, to produce the original episodic experience in neocortex. 21 EE 141

How memories are made? q Most synapses in cortex are excitatory using neurotransmitter glutamate. q A large minority are inhibitory using neurotransmitters like GABA (gamma amino butyric acid). q These two processes are called long term potentiation (LTP) and long term depression (LTD). q LTP has been observed in hippocampus usingle cell recording. A schematic of a single cell recording in hippocampus 22 EE 141

Hippocampus Anatomy and connections of the structures of the hippocampal formation: signals reach from uniand multimodal association areas through the Entorminal Cortex (EC). 23 EE 141

More anatomy Hippocampus = king of the cortex Bidirectional connections with the entorhinal cortex: olfactory bulb, cingulate cortex, superior temporal gyrus (STG), insula, orbitofrontal cortex. 24 EE 141

More anatomy Sporadic activation Representations in CA 3 and CA 1 are focused on specific stimuli, while in the subiculum and the entorhinal cortex they are strongly distributed. 25 EE 141

Hippocampal formation Model contains structures: dentate gyrus (DG), areas CA 1 and CA 3, entorhinal cortex (EC). Pct Act = % of activation. 26 EE 141

How memories are made? q Many millions of neurons and billions of synapses are involved in LTP or LTD. q Based on evidence from EEG, ERP, and f. MRI we can suppose that formation of long term memories involves: § Episodic input is presented via neocortex. § It is integrated for memory purpose in the MTL (medial temporal lobes) involving hippocampi and related structures and perhaps thalamus and surrounding regions. § Consolidation: MTL and related regions bind and integrate a number of neocortical regions in the process that transforms temporary synaptic connections into longer lasting memory traces in both MTL and neocortex. § The main mechanism used is LTP and LTD. § Normal sleep is important to form long-lasting memory traces. q More permanent memories require protein synthesis – such as growth of dendritic spikes on the top of axons and dendrites. 27 EE 141

How memories are made? q The steps of learning, binding, consolidation and remembering. § § When a new event is learned cortex activates MTL Cortex and MTL resonate to establish the memory traces in a binding step In consolidation the resonance continues without external support Upon presentation of the original event's cue, MTL and cortex resonate to recall the stored memories. 28 EE 141

How memories are made? q Reconsolidation turns active neuronal connections into lasting ones. q We have two kinds of reconsolidations: cellular and system reconsolidation. 29 EE 141

How memories are made? q Rapid consolidation occurs within minutes to hours from learning event. § It correlates with morphological changes in synapses. q If the stimulus is intense or repeated then gene transcription and protein formation lead to long lasting changes including creation of new synapses to form long lasting memory. 30 EE 141

How memories are made? q Nadel and Moskovitch concluded that contrary to the standard consolidation model, MTL is needed to represent even old episodic memories for as long as these memories exist. q MTL neurons act as pointers to neocortical neurons that represent the experience. q Neocortex, on the other hand, is sufficient to represent repeated experiences with words, objects, people and environment. q MTL may help in initial formation of these neocortical traces, but once formed they can exist on their own. 31 EE 141

Varieties of Memories q Declarative memory can be divided into episodic and semantic memory. q Episodic memory have specific source in time, space and events. § It allows us to go back in time and relieve the experience. q Semantic memory involve facts about the world, ourselves and other knowledge. § We know which city is a capital of France or where are the great pyramids. EE 141 32

Varieties of Memories q Episodic memories: 1. Have reference to oneself Are organized around specific time period Are remembered consciously such that we can relive them Are susceptible to forgetting Are context dependent w. r. t. time, place, relationships etc. 2. 3. 4. 5. 33 EE 141

Varieties of Memories q Semantic memories: 1. Have reference to shared knowledge Are not organized around specific time period Give a feeling of knowing rather than recollection of a specific event. Are less susceptible to forgetting than events. Are relatively context independent. 2. 3. 4. 5. 34 EE 141

Varieties of Memories q q In a study subjects were asked to tell if they remember the item or “know” the item. The act of remembering (episodes) resulted in higher brain activation than the “feeling of knowing” (semantic) 35 EE 141

Varieties of Memories q Episodic memories may turn into semantic memories over time § § § q Initially memories are episodic and context dependent Over time, episodic memories are transformed into semantic memories MTL is important for recovering episodic memories, which are linked by specific autobiographical context Episodic memories in Fig. show a man cooking on a barbecue, giving flowers to a lady, painting a picture and playing golf. q A semantic network above combines all these specific episodes into a 36 simplified knowledge of a man who BBQs, loves, paints, and plays golf. EE 141

Varieties of Memories q Learning is often thought to require consciousness and paying attention. § It certainly helps to learn by being aware of it It is a basic learning strategy for humans. § q However there are some evidence for learning without consciousness especially with emotional stimuli. Fig. from: http: //universe-review. ca/R 10 -16 -ANS. htm q The terms explicit and implicit memories are used in context of remembering. § EE 141 Explicit (declarative) memory requires conscious awareness 37

Varieties of Memories q q Prefrontal cortex (PFC) is critical for working memory Lesions of PFC impaired performance in delayed response tasks. Fuster (1971) experimented with monkeys – they were trained to remember a color for a short period of time and then point to a correct color when presented with two choices. Through implanted electrodes he observed sustained neurons activities over the delay period in the area of dorsolateral (DL) PFC 38 EE 141

Varieties of Memories q q q Prefrontal cortex (PFC) serves to support the mental work performed on stored information rather than as a site of storage itself. Its primary function is to modulate activity in other cortical areas where the items in memory are stored. PFC enhances the relevant information in the memory and inhibits irrelevant information. When the information is relevant to a specific item in the memory, then ventral part of PFC is involved When the information regards the relations between many items, then dorsal part of PFC is involved. Anterior (frontal) regions of PFC are involved with coordination and monitoring activities among different PFC regions to implement higher order functions such as planning. 39 EE 141

Varieties of Memories q q q Combined brain regions work together for visual working memory. Hippocampus may encode new memories, while MTL may combine them with pother modalities and IT is involved in high level visual object representation. DL-PFC and anterior PFC is involved in short term maintenance of relations 40 EE 141

Varieties of Memories Clive Wearing knows that something is wrong as he always lives in present time. He has a metacognitive concept of his own cognitive functions. A person may recall an episode using semantic cue and vice versa. q For effective retrieval the retrieved information must overlap with learned and encoded one – the person must have a goal to retrieve it. q MTL is mostly involved in retrieving episodic memory. q Poor frontal function impairs tests on the source of memory and temporal order. q Semantic memory both learning and retrieval depend more on the 41 left EE 141 hemisphere functions.

Varieties of Memories q q q q q Other kinds of memory may involve other brain structures. The amygdala mediates fear conditioning. The cerebellum and basal ganglia are needed for habits and skills, and subconscious conditioning. The thalamus is information hub constantly trading signals with cortex. Perceptual and motor learning involve the dynamic organization of cortical maps. Brain surgery can alter body maps – this is related to brain plasticity. Life is a development process of learning, adaptation and memory formation. New neurons are being born throughout the lifetime starting from stem cells. The ongoing placement of the neurons involves dynamic learning and adaptation process. 42 EE 141

Varieties of Memories EE 141 q Overview of multiple learning systems in the brain 43

Memory is not uniform 1. Weights (long-term, require activation) vs activations (short-term, already activated, can influence processing) 2. Based on weights 3. Ø Ø The cortex has initial states but suffers from catastrophic influences. The hippocampus can learn fast without influences, using sparse distributed representations of images Based on activation Ø Ø The cortex shows initial states but isn't good for short-term memory 4. Cooperation of activation and memory based on weights 5. Video 1. 2. short-term memory in chimpanzees -30 sec Comparison with students– 30 sec 44 EE 141

Active short-term memory Short-term priming: attention and influence on reaction speed. Besides the duration, memory content and effects resulting from similarity are like long-term priming. Project act_priming. proj. (http: //grey. colorado. edu/Comp. Cog. Neuro/index. php/CECN 1_Act_Priming) Completing roots or homophony, but without learning, only the influence of the remains after the last activation. The network has learned series IA-IB. The test has a series of images and results A and B, we show it A upon output, the network responds A; now we show the image for B but only phase is turned on – (lack of learning), the network's result is sometimes A, sometimes B. Load. Net, View Test. Logs, Test The correlations of previous results A and B depend on the speed of fading of activation; check efekt act_decay 1 => 0, tendency to leaving a. Analyze the influence on results in test_log. 45 EE 141

Role of dopamine Blocking of dopamine has a negative influence on working memory, and aiding it has a positive influence. TD – temporal Difference in RL Dopamine (DA) arrives from the VTA (ventral tegmental area). DA strengthens internal activations, regulating access to working memory. VTA displays such increased activity. Basal ganglia can also regulate PFC activity. EE 141 46

Basal Ganglia Pathways: thalamus- basal ganglia - cortex. Red lines – inhibition, mostly GABA. Blue lines: excitation, mostly glutamine. Black lines: dopamine, mostly inhibition. Malfunctions in these pathways lead to Parkinson, Huntington and other diseases. GP – Globus Pallidus Putamen; Substantia Nigra Subthalamic nucleus EE 141 47

A- not B Interactions between active and synaptic memory - weights have already changed but active memory is in a different state: what wins? These interactions are visible in the developing brains of children ~ 8 months (Piaget 1954), experiments done also on animals. A toy (food) is hidden in box A and after a short delay the child (animal) can remove it from there. After several repetitions in A, the toy is hidden in box B; the children keep looking in A. Active memory doesn't work in children as efficiently as synaptic memory, lesions in the area of the prefrontal cortex cause similar effects in adult and infant rhesus monkeys. Children make fewer errors looking in the direction of the place where the toy was hidden, than reaching for it. There are many interesting variants of this type of experiment and explanations on different levels. EE 141 48

Other types of memory The traditional approach to memory assumes functional, cognitive, monolithic, canonical representations in memory. From modeling, it turns out that there are many systems interacting with each other which are responsible for memory, with different characteristics, variable representations and types of information. Recognition memory: was an element of the list seen earlier? A "recognition" signal is enough, remembering is not necessary. A hippocampus model is also useful here, it allows for remembering, but this is too much – in recognition memory the central role seems to be played by the area of the perirhinal cortex. Cued recall - completion of missing information. Free recall – effects of placement on the list (best at the beginning and the end), as well as grouping (chunking) of information. 49 EE 141

Summary q Knowledge formed in memory is § built, dynamic, continuous, appearing q q q Behavior and inhibition of knowledge are the result of dynamic information processing rather than interaction structures set at the top. Recognition is based on the ability to differentiate earlier-learned activations from new, unknown activations. The hippocampus ensures high-quality recognition with a high threshold guaranteeing association of earlier-learned activations. Priming contributes to slow building of inviariant representations Two learning mechanisms § Based on connection weights § Based on neuron activation EE 141 50

Summary q q q q The cortex helps recognition by priming The cortex leads to unstimulated associations The cortex is responsible for working memory cooperating with the hippocampus Sequences of grouped representations are stored in long-term memory Memory based on activation requires combining quickactualizing with stable representations The hippocampus uses sparse distributed representations for fast learning without mixing ideas Priming memory can be long-term (based on weights) or short-term (based on activation) 51 EE 141