How does the brain select what to remember during sleep?

Wannan Yang, Chen Sun, Roman Huszár, Thomas Hainmueller, Kirill Kiselev, György Buzsáki. “Selection of experience for memory by hippocampal sharp wave ripple.” Science 383, 1478-1483 (2024).

Abstract
Experiences need to be tagged during learning for further

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How hippocampal activity encodes numerous memories of specific events in life?

Selmaan N. Chettih,Emily L. Mackevicius,Stephanie Hale,Dmitriy Aronov. Barcoding of episodic memories in the hippocampus of a food-caching bird. Cell, March 29, 2024.  DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2024.02.032

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The hippocampus is critical for episodic memory. Although hippocampal activity represents place and …

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How egocentric coding properties arise from its presynaptic inputs, and how egocentric cells represent items across different behavioral contexts?

Cheng, Ning, Qiqi Dong, Zhen Zhang, Li Wang, Xiaojing Chen, and Cheng Wang. “Egocentric processing of items in spines, dendrites, and somas in the retrosplenial cortex.” Neuron (2023).

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“Egocentric representations of external items are essential for spatial …

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How the medial entorhinal cortex develops during learning and influences memory?

Malone, T.J., Tien, NW., Ma, Y. et al. A consistent map in the medial entorhinal cortex supports spatial memoryNat Commun 15, 1457 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-45853-4

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The medial entorhinal cortex (MEC) is hypothesized to function as a

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How place cells use environmental cues to resolve the ambiguity of arotationally symmetric environment?

Cheng, Han Yin, Dorothy W. Overington, and Kate J. Jeffery. “A configural context signal simultaneously but separably drives positioning and orientation of hippocampal place fields.” Hippocampus 34.2 (2024): 73-87.

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Effective self-localization requires that the brain can

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Whether associative memory involves temporally correlated spiking of medial temporal lobe (MTL) neurons that exhibit stimulus-specific tuning?

Kunz, L., Staresina, B.P., Reinacher, P.C. et al. Ripple-locked coactivity of stimulus-specific neurons and human associative memory. Nat Neurosci (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-023-01550-x

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“Associative memory enables the encoding and retrieval of relations between different stimuli. To better understand its neural …

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How to convert an allocentric goal into an egocentric steering signal?

Mussells Pires, P., Zhang, L., Parache, V. et al. Converting an allocentric goal into an egocentric steering signal. Nature (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-07006-3

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“Neuronal signals that are relevant for spatial navigation have been described in many species1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10. However, a circuit-level

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