Category: Episodic Memory

How the brain avoid systematic erasing of previously encoded memories?

Irene Navarro-Lobato, Adrian Aleman-Zapata, Anumita Samanta, Milan Bogers, Shekhar Narayanan, Abdelrahman Rayan, Alejandra Alonso, Jacqueline van der Meij, Mehdi Khamassi, Zafar Khan, Lisa Genzel. Learning Fast and Slow: Increased cortical plasticity leads to memory interference and enhanced hippocampal-cortical interactions. …

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How unique and predictable elements of memories are stored and reconstructed by efficiently combining both hippocampal and neocortical systems?

Eleanor Spens, Neil Burgess. A Generative Model of Memory Construction and Consolidation. bioRxiv 2023.01.19.524711; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.01.19.524711

Abstract
“Human episodic memories are (re)constructed, combining unique features with schema-based predictions, and share neural substrates with imagination. They also show systematic schema-based …

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Whether, and how, replay supports both future planning and preserving memories of the past?

G. Elliott Wimmer, Yunzhe Liu, Daniel C. McNamee, and Raymond J. Dolan. Distinct replay signatures for prospective decision-making and memory preservation. PNAS, 120 (6) e2205211120, 2023. 

Significance
The sequential neural reactivation of prior experience, known as replay, is

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How episodic memories are stored within brains?

Sachin P Vaidya, Raymond A Chitwood, Jeffrey C Magee. The formation of an expanding memory representation in the hippocampus. bioRxiv 2023.02.01.526663; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.02.01.526663

Abstract
How episodic memories are stored within brains is poorly understood. While certain memory-retaining

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How does the cortex retrieve episodic memories from the hippocampus during memory consolidation?

HaoRan Chang, Ingrid M. Esteves, Adam R. Neumann, Majid H. Mohajerani, Bruce L. McNaughton. Cortical Reactivation of Non-Spatial and Spatial Memory Representations Coordinate with Hippocampus to Form a Memory Dialogue. bioRxiv 2022.12.16.520658; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.12.16.520658

Abstract
“Episodic memory depends on …

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Whether associative memory involves precisely timed spiking of neurons in the medial temporal lobes that exhibit stimulus-specific tuning?

Lukas Kunz, Bernhard P Staresina, Peter C Reinacher, Armin Brandt, Tim A Guth, Andreas Schulze-Bonhage, Joshua Jacobs. Ripple-locked coactivity of stimulus-specific neurons supports human associative memory. bioRxiv 2022.10.17.512635; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.10.17.512635

Abstract
Associative memory is the ability to encode

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How conjunctive and complementary CA1 hippocampal cell populations relate sensory events to immobility and locomotion?

Samsoon Inayat, Brendan B McAllister, Bruce L McNaughton, Ian Q Whishaw, Majid H Mohajerani. Conjunctive and complementary CA1 hippocampal cell populations relate sensory events to immobility and locomotion. bioRxiv 2022.07.06.498996; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.07.06.498996

Abstract
The way in which the

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