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ReviewTrends in neurosciences2020

Transforming the Concept of Memory Reactivation.

Serra E Favila, Hongmi Lee, Brice A Kuhl

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Review in Trends in neurosciences, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 64 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

64 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Serra E FavilaDepartment of Psychology, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA.
Hongmi LeeDepartment of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA.
Brice A KuhlDepartment of Psychology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, USA. Electronic address: bkuhl@uoregon.edu.

Funding

Parietal memory representations as a window into hippocampal learningR01NS107727 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF OREGON · PI KUHL, BRICE ALAN · 2018 to 2022
$1.6M
Neural Mechanisms for memory-guided visual behavior in humansK00EY031607 · NEI · COLUMBIA UNIV NEW YORK MORNINGSIDE · PI FAVILA, SERRA E · 2020 to 2023
$336k
NEI NIH HHS K00 EY031607NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS107727
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Reactivation refers to the phenomenon wherein patterns of neural activity expressed during perceptual experience are re-expressed at a later time, a putative neural marker of memory. Reactivation of perceptual content has been observed across many cortical areas and correlates with objective and subjective expressions of memory in humans. However, because reactivation emphasizes similarities between perceptual and memory-based representations, it obscures differences in how perceptual events and memories are represented. Here, we highlight recent evidence of systematic differences in how (and where) perceptual events and memories are represented in the brain. We argue that neural representations of memories are best thought of as spatially transformed versions of perceptual representations. We consider why spatial transformations occur and identify critical questions for future research.

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Memory, EpisodicBrainBrain MappingGoalsHumansepisodic memoryfrontoparietal cortexmemory transformationreactivationreinstatementsensory cortex

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PMID33041061
PMCPMC7688497

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