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@ARTICLE{Fitz:886071,
author = {Fitz, Hartmut and Uhlmann, Marvin and van den Broek, Dick
and Duarte, Renato and Hagoort, Peter and Petersson, Karl
Magnus},
title = {{N}euronal spike-rate adaptation supports working memory in
language processing},
journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the
United States of America},
volume = {117},
number = {34},
issn = {0027-8424},
address = {Washington, DC},
publisher = {National Acad. of Sciences},
reportid = {FZJ-2020-04257},
pages = {20881 - 20889},
year = {2020},
abstract = {Language processing involves the ability to store and
integrate pieces of information in working memory over short
periods of time. According to the dominant view, information
is maintained through sustained, elevated neural activity.
Other work has argued that short-term synaptic facilitation
can serve as a substrate of memory. Here we propose an
account where memory is supported by intrinsic plasticity
that downregulates neuronal firing rates. Single neuron
responses are dependent on experience, and we show through
simulations that these adaptive changes in excitability
provide memory on timescales ranging from milliseconds to
seconds. On this account, spiking activity writes
information into coupled dynamic variables that control
adaptation and move at slower timescales than the membrane
potential. From these variables, information is continuously
read back into the active membrane state for processing.
This neuronal memory mechanism does not rely on persistent
activity, excitatory feedback, or synaptic plasticity for
storage. Instead, information is maintained in adaptive
conductances that reduce firing rates and can be accessed
directly without cued retrieval. Memory span is
systematically related to both the time constant of
adaptation and baseline levels of neuronal excitability.
Interference effects within memory arise when adaptation is
long lasting. We demonstrate that this mechanism is
sensitive to context and serial order which makes it
suitable for temporal integration in sequence processing
within the language domain. We also show that it enables the
binding of linguistic features over time within dynamic
memory registers. This work provides a step toward a
computational neurobiology of language.},
cin = {INM-6 / IAS-6 / INM-10},
ddc = {500},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)INM-6-20090406 / I:(DE-Juel1)IAS-6-20130828 /
I:(DE-Juel1)INM-10-20170113},
pnm = {574 - Theory, modelling and simulation (POF3-574)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-574},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
pubmed = {pmid:32788365},
UT = {WOS:000572347100008},
doi = {10.1073/pnas.2000222117},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/886071},
}