A key idea behind the brain's ability to #flexibly and #rapidly #compute is its #shortterm #plasticity ! The mechanism was beautifully reviewed by the late Mark Stokes:

‘Activity-silent’ working memory in prefrontal cortex: a dynamic coding framework

https://www.cell.com/fulltext/S1364-6613(15)00102-3

Seeing ideas like these included in modern #ML models more and more now - extremely exciting to see how this will work out in #technology !

#neuroscience #neuropaper #neuralnetwork @neuroscience