{"id":226164,"date":"2025-11-30T00:05:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T06:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/humans-and-artificial-neural-networks-exhibit-some-similar-patterns-during-learning"},"modified":"2025-11-30T00:05:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T06:05:10","slug":"humans-and-artificial-neural-networks-exhibit-some-similar-patterns-during-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/humans-and-artificial-neural-networks-exhibit-some-similar-patterns-during-learning","title":{"rendered":"Humans and artificial neural networks exhibit some similar patterns during learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/humans-and-artificial-neural-networks-exhibit-some-similar-patterns-during-learning2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Past psychology and behavioral science studies have identified various ways in which people\u2019s acquisition of new knowledge can be disrupted. One of these, known as interference, occurs when humans are learning new information and this makes it harder for them to correctly recall knowledge that they had acquired earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, a similar tendency was also observed in artificial neural networks (ANNs), computational models inspired by biological neurons and the connections between them. In ANNs, interference can manifest as so-called <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2023-09-brain-inspired-algorithm-metaplasticity-artificial-spiking.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\" target=\"_blank\">catastrophic forgetting<\/a>, a process via which models \u201cunlearn\u201d specific skills or information after they are trained on a new task.<\/p>\n<p>In some other instances, knowledge acquired in the past can instead help humans or ANNs to learn how to complete a new task. This phenomenon, known as \u201ctransfer,\u201d entails the application of existing knowledge of skills to a novel task or problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Past psychology and behavioral science studies have identified various ways in which people\u2019s acquisition of new knowledge can be disrupted. One of these, known as interference, occurs when humans are learning new information and this makes it harder for them to correctly recall knowledge that they had acquired earlier. Interestingly, a similar tendency was also [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}