The Department of Psychology is delighted to announce the next talk of the Mind Meeting Seminar Series.
On Thursday June 6th, Dr. Maria Wimber (University of Birmingham) will give a talk entitled “Tracking the neural footprints of memories over time”.
When: Thursday 6th June, 15.30. The talk will be followed by a drinks reception.
Where: Charlotte Bühler room, MPI for Cognitive and Brain Sciences Leipzig
You are very welcome to attend!
Abstract: Tracking the neural footprints of memories over time
Our memories are not simple snapshots of past experiences. Remembering is a reconstructive process, and each attempt to retrieve a past event can adaptively change the underlying memory space. In this talk, I will discuss our work on the neurocognitive mechanisms that enable the selective reactivation of an episodic memory. I present behavioural and electrophysiological (M/EEG) work that provides insight into how a memory trace unfolds in time during retrieval, on a sub-trial scale. These studies show that on a fast, sub-trial time scale, memory signatures (i) rhythmically fluctuate, and (ii) prioritize meaningful conceptual over detailed perceptual information. Further, I show evidence from a series of fMRI studies in which we track the representational changes that occur in a memory trace over time and across repeated retrieval attempts. These findings demonstrate that retrieval adaptively modifies memories by stabilising behaviourally relevant and weakening behaviourally irrelevant and potentially interfering components. Together, this work sheds light onto the temporal dynamics and the highly adaptive nature of the memory reconstruction process.
Recent publications:
- Linde-Domingo J., Treder M.S., Kerrén C, Wimber M (2019). Evidence that neural information flow is reversed between object perception and object reconstruction from memory. Nature Communications, 10, 179.
- Kerren, C., Linde-Domingo, J., Hanslmayr., S., & Wimber., M. (2018). An optimal oscillatory phase for pattern reactivation during memory retrieval. Current Biology, 28, 3383-3392.
- Anthony, J.W., Ferreira, C.S., Norman, K.A., Wimber, M. (2017) Retrieval as a fast route to memory consolidation. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 21(8), 573-576
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