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Episode eight, titled Trace Decay, revealed very little on the heels of the Bernard-is-a-host scene.
Going into "Trace Decay," the eighth episode of "Westworld," some fans held out hope that Sidse Babett Knudsen's clever performance as the theme-park underboss Theresa Cullen wasn't at an end.
Because the narrative (Westworld's favorite word, by the way) crawled along in Trace Decay, it was easier to ding it critically whereas other prestige dramas get a bit more leeway for digressions or slow-moving stories.
On a theory of this sort, what makes some neural process an instance of memory trace decay is a matter of how it functions, or the role it plays, in a cognitive system; its neural or chemical properties are relevant only insofar as they enable that process to do what trace decay is hypothesized to do.
For example (Fodor's, in his 1968, Ch. 3), a psychologist may begin to construct a theory of memory by postulating the existence of "memory trace" decay, a process whose occurrence or absence is responsible for effects such as memory loss and retention, and which is affected by stress or emotion in certain distinctive ways.
It also shares a writer, as Yu works on the show and co-wrote one of the best episodes, "Trace Decay" (that's the episode where Maeve hilariously rewrites the action of the park after her brain upgrade).
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It presumably occurs because the memory of the response on which the reinforcer acts (the response trace) decays over time.
This variance is greater if the oxygen consumption rate trace decays, or if there is a biased estimation of the second, O2-depleted long measurement period).
The neuron learned each receptive field by changes in the presynaptic factor P and the postsynaptic factor q. When the stimulus location changed, however, the postsynaptic memory trace decayed only very slowly as a result of homeostatic scaling.
Almost every radiation monitor installed at the customs and border control points designed for detection of nuclear fissile materials uses gas neutron counters tracing decay neutrons.
Nadel et al (2000) have explicitly proposed that memory traces "decay (i.e. disappear) and can replicate", in a model that explains some properties of the loss of memory as a function of lesion size [120].
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