Ann-Kristin Meyer & Roland G. Benoit | Forgetting the past and learning from the future

The Max Planck Research Group: Adaptive Memory examines how we edit memories of our past and how we use our memories for the simulation of hypothetical events. In this colloquium, we will showcase some of our recent work in these two areas. Ann-Kirstin Meyer will first present evidence that memory suppression causes inhibitory after effects on declarative, affective, and neural memory representations. Roland Benoit will then turn to our recent observation that we learn from simulated experiences much the same way as we learn from real experiences.