Encoding, retrieving and consolidating memories for the continuous stream of experience

Experience is effectively continuous, in that during waking the senses are continuously exposed to information from the outside world. In contrast, memories are often described as episodic, with specific beginnings and ends. In this talk Dr. Frank will present recent results from his laboratory that have provided new insights into how the brain segments experience to creates representations of and memories for individual episodes. He will discuss his discovery of specific and distinct hippocampal and neocortical representations associated with experiences that occur during movement and immobility. He will then describe how those representations are reactivated during the replay events that have been hypothesized to contribute to memory retrieval and consolidation.

Dr. Frank is a professor of physiology at the University California - San Francisco. His lab focuses on the circuitry of the hippocampus and anatomically related regions.