ALT Three boxes in panel (a) show how contextual configurations alter the effective connectivity matrix of the associative memory network, depicted as gray and white squares with gray being strong and white being weak. The neuronal gating plot removes specific columns and rows, depicted as red lines. The synaptic gating plot removes individual elements, depicted by red X’s. The combined gating plot shows both types of markings. Panel (b) shows how each contextual state produces a distinct energy landscape with a unique set of attractor memory patterns, shown as a wavy line labeled context 1 in black, a different wavy line in pink labeled context 2, and another wavy line in blue labeled context s. Below these lines are a black arrow pointing upwards labeled energy and a black arrow pointing right labeled network state. Panel c shows a graph of the proportion of accessible memories on the y axis, number of contexts on the x axis, and a smooth line going downwards exponentially.