How Your Brain Chooses What to Remember

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My name is Artem, I'm a graduate student at NYU Center for Neural Science and researcher at Flatiron Institute.

In this video, we explore how the brain tags which memories to keep and the role of a special brain wave – a hippocampal sharp-wave ripple in this process.

Paper full text: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/s...
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Outline:
00:00 Introduction
01:11 Sharp-Wave Ripples
04:38 Memory Consolidation
6:36 Experimental Setup
07:58 UMAP & Population Activity
10:33 Maze Manifold
12:02 Decoding Ripple Content
13:57 Putting it together
15:42 Brilliant.org
16:56 Outro

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