Prof. Dr Lila Davachi | The life of a memory: post-encoding reactivation and reorganization of episodic memory

Work for decades has tried to understand the relationship between cognitive operations that are deployed during an experience that can influence later memory for that experience. However, it is also known that experiences leave a neural imprint that can be replayed during post-experience time periods, such as awake rest and sleep. Replay is the leading mechanism underlying memory consolidation, which is not only important for stabilizing individual memories but perhaps more so for integrating and extracting knowledge across experiences. I will present our recent work identifying and characterizing post-experience brain activity and its relationship to memory as well as work attempting to track the emergence of structured memory representations with consolidation.

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