ERC Starting Grant · 2019
The Function of Hippocampal and Cortical Memory Replay in Humans
How does the brain use past experiences to shape future actions? Over two decades ago, research in rodents has made a remarkable discovery that may provide key answers to this fundamental question. Researchers found that while rats were sleeping, activity in their hippocampus seemingly retraced the animals’ previous trajectories in a maze, only much faster than in real time. This phenomenon, known as replay, has become a major focus of neuroscientists and even artificial intelligence researchers over the past decades. The resulting research demonstrated that replay is prevalent during wakeful resting, related to memory, planning and reward processing, and shares similarities with machine…
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