Chapter Fourteen – Cognition of Learning and Memory: What Have Löwdin's Orthogonalizations Got to Do With That?

We present some initial results to show that Lowdin's two orthogonalization schemes, namely Symmetric and Canonical, can help us to understand certain important aspects of the brain's competence to learn and memorize. We propose that these orthogonalizations may constitute the physiological actions that the brain may perform to deal with certain types of memories.

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