Short Term Plasticity and Cognitive Memory

• It's not entirely clear how forms of psychological memory emerge from neural changes.
• Some work in working memory involves loops of neurons with neurons going through quiescent stages.
• Once activated, short term potentiation allows the most recently used memories to be reactivated.
• Thus, working memory is maintained by STP.
• I've used Short Term Depression to get Cell Assemblies to stop firing; that is it takes the item out of psychological short term memory. I don't have any evidence for this.
• I've thought about using short term potentiation to support growth (adding new neurons) in Cell Assemblies.
• It does seem likely that short term potentation supports long term potentiation. However, that's just a theoretical idea. Has anyone seen a paper on this?