Simulation parameters.

Model parameters for the simulations shown in Figs. 4 and 6. All simulations used , and for and a homeostatic setting maintaining a constant anatomical connectivity where the number of eliminated synapses per time step was equal to the number of generated synapses, i.e., , where is the potential connectivity and is the fraction of unconsolidated silent synapses at time . Synapse model: “single”  =  at most a single synapse per neuron pair; “multi”  =  multiple synapses per neuron pair are possible. is anatomical connectivity of the synaptic projection from population to . is population size of and . is cell assembly size (i.e., number of one-entries in memory patterns). and denote completeness and add noise in input patterns (i.e., has correct and false one-entries). # blocks is number of memory blocks that are subsequentially stored. /block is the number of memories per memory block. , , are the state transition probabilities of the (potential) synapses.