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Engrams emerging as the basic unit of memory

January 02, 2020

… Engrams emerging as the basic unit of memory January 2, 2020 Research Findings Review in Science … studying the neural substrate for storing memories engram memory consolidation hippocampus amygdala …

Engrams: mapping and manipulating memories

… ensembles of neurons, or “engrams,” that together encode a memory. By using techniques to label and then take control of … evidence that engrams are indeed the brain’s unit of memory. In 2012 a team in the Tonegawa lab identified the … view in the field, termed the “standard model of system consolidation of memory” posited that the hippocampus plays a …

Importance to memory of replay and sleep

… Importance to memory of replay and sleep Discoveries Sleep is hardly just a … Two years later they further linked replay with the consolidation of memories when they showed that if they …

Neuroscientists identify brain circuit necessary for memory formation

April 06, 2017

… Neuroscientists identify brain circuit necessary for memory formation April 6, 2017 Research Findings New findings challenge standard model of memory consolidation. engram hippocampus prefrontal cortex amygdala …

Silent Engrams: Distinctions between memory storage and recall

… Silent Engrams: Distinctions between memory storage and recall Discoveries Memories are stored, … are distinct has profound implications. For instance, in memory disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease and amnesia, … problems could be the result either of failed storage or consolidation, or of failed recall. Studies in the lab of …

Faculty Forum Online: Sleep and Memory

… Faculty Forum Online: Sleep and Memory Matthew Wilson speaks on the importance of sleep for how the brain processes memory 2020-10-21T13:00:00-0400 2020-10-21T14:00:00-0400 … have begun elucidating the nature of memory processing and consolidation during these periods. Using computational …

Neuroscientists discover a molecular mechanism that allows memories to form

October 05, 2020

… When the brain forms a memory of a new experience, neurons called engram cells encode the details of the memory and are later reactivated whenever we recall it. A new … , the director of MIT’s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory and the senior author of the study. Asaf Marco, an MIT …

Brain’s ‘memory center’ needed to recognize image sequences but not single sights

July 26, 2021

… Brain’s ‘memory center’ needed to recognize image sequences but not … hippocampus, a deeper structure strongly associated with memory but shrouded in mystery about exactly how. By … on the hippocampus, SRP only takes hold after a period of “consolidation,” for instance overnight during sleep. To test …