Emergent properties of a neurobiological model of memory

The presence of accommodation in nerve cells prompted the creation of a new model for neural computation. From neuron accommodation data gathered using microelectrodes, it was inferred that neural responses exhibit hysteresis-like loops. The upper and lower halves of such hysteresis loops are described by two equations. Generalizing the two equations to two families of curves accounts for loops of various sizes. The authors demonstrate that this model is capable of memorizing the entire history of its neural excitations