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An Introduction to Learning and Memory
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2023
Learning is the process of acquiring new information and memory is the retention or storage of that information. Different types of learning, such as non-associative and associative learning, and different types of memory, such as long-term and short-term memory, have been associated with human behaviors. Studying these components in detail helps behavioral scientists understand the neural mechanisms behind these two complex phenomena. JoVE's overview on learning and memory introduces common...
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Visual Statistical Learning
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2023
Source: Laboratory of Jonathan Flombaum—Johns Hopkins University The visual environment contains massive amounts of information involving the relations between objects in space and time; certain objects are more likely to appear in the vicinity of other objects. Learning these regularities can support a wide array of visual processing, including object recognition. Unsurprisingly, then, humans appear to learn these regularities automatically, quickly, and without conscious awareness. The name...
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Quantifying Learning in Young Infants: Tracking Leg Actions During a Discovery-learning Task
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2015
A method is described in which 3-4 month old infants learn a task by discovery and their leg movements are captured to quantify the learning process.
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Motor Learning in Mirror Drawing
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2023
Source: Laboratory of Jonathan Flombaum—Johns Hopkins University Colloquially, the terms learning and memory encompass a broad range of behaviors and mental systems, everything from learning to tie a shoe to mastering calculus (and a lot in between). Experimental psychologists have divided up learning mechanisms into groups that seem to have different properties, and that seem to rely on different brain systems. A major division is between declarative and non-declarative memory, roughly, the...
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Directing Effect of Substituents: meta-Directing Groups
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2025
Substituents on the benzene ring that direct an incoming electrophile to undergo substitution at the meta position are called meta directors. All meta directors either have a positive charge on the atom directly bonded to the ring or a partial positive charge. These groups function by withdrawing electrons from the ring through inductive and resonance effects. Consider the carbocation intermediates formed upon the addition of an electrophile on nitrobenzene at the ortho, meta, and para...
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Meta-learning identifies patterns, parameter settings, or learning strategies that recur across multiple related tasks. That shared experience creates a transferable starting point for a new task, so the model does not begin entirely from scratch. In engineering, this can help an intelligent system adjust when operating conditions change while limiting the amount of new data and retraining required.
Multiple tasks provide varied examples of how a system, dataset, or operating condition can differ. Comparing those tasks allows the model to distinguish reusable structure from task-specific details. The resulting knowledge can support faster adaptation to a new engineering problem, particularly when labeled examples for that problem are limited or collecting additional data is costly.
A conventional approach may require substantial retraining whenever the target problem or operating condition changes. Meta-learning instead uses prior experience across related tasks to prepare parameters or learning strategies for rapid fine-tuning. This distinction can reduce adaptation time and data requirements, making the approach more suitable for engineering systems that must remain useful as conditions vary.
An engineering workflow begins by assembling experience from multiple related tasks or operating conditions. The model then learns transferable patterns, effective parameters, or a learning strategy from that experience. When a new task appears, engineers apply rapid fine-tuning using the available data. This sequence supports adaptation without rebuilding the entire learning process for every new condition.
The approach is most useful when systems vary over time, new operating conditions arise, or labeled examples are scarce. These circumstances occur in applications such as adaptive control, predictive maintenance, fault diagnosis, and design optimization. Meta-learning can help such systems adapt with less retraining and fewer task-specific examples than a strategy designed only for one fixed problem.
By learning from related tasks, meta-learning can improve the adaptability, robustness, and scalability of intelligent engineering systems. Its value is not limited to prediction accuracy on one fixed dataset; it also concerns how efficiently a model responds to new tasks or conditions. Reduced retraining time and lower data requirements can make deployment across changing engineering settings more practical.