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The kind of learning you are doing now is characterized by rapid acquisition (the speed of reading), enormous capacity (further learning does not force out or interfere with prior learning) and persistence: what you learn from a page can potentially last decades. These features are extremely unusual for any biological mechanism, for which homeostasis is the norm. The only known mechanism having these properties is synaptic long-term potentiation, or LTP, and it is therefore the leading, and currently the only, candidate mechanism for rapid, persistent, high-capacity learning. In contrast, slowly accreted learning of the kind that occurs when one learns motor skills such as riding a bicycle or playing racquetball, may be subserved by a different set of mechanisms.
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Granger, R., Taketani, M., Lynch, G. (1995). Special Purpose Temporal Processing in Hippocampal Fields CA1 and CA3. In: Covey, E., Hawkins, H.L., Port, R.F. (eds) Neural Representation of Temporal Patterns. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1919-5_8
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