Fig 5. Pattern separation improves episodic memory retrieval.

A: Example performance of single-pattern retrieval across different level of retrieval noise (raw data). B: Distribution of the distance between cued and retrieved patterns at different levels of pattern separation σ_a (only for the data within the dashed rectangle in A) as indicated by different colors. The legend is given in panel C, the reference σ_a = 0 is shown in dark blue. C: Average performance of single-pattern retrieval as a function of retrieval noise. D: Retrieval error for retrieval of sequences at different levels of σ_a (100 stored sequences, σ_n = 0.1, a: 2-D).