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Structural Crystallization: A Unified Computational Framework for Memory Formation, Persistence, and Modification

2026-04-14

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Prevailing models of memory treat strength as a unitary quantity that increases with learning and decreases with forgetting or extinction. We argue that this conflation obscures a fundamental distinction: memory has separable dimensions of structural accumulation and representational fidelity, which are differentially modified by retrieval. Structural accumulation captures how much of a...

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Literature Corpus work: 352e340a-3188-534c-846a-57acff009f04
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-9387132/v1

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