External Seminar: "Triggered memory replay in sleep: detection with EEG classifiers and impacts on emotion and implicit to explicit transfer"

Abstract:

Memories are neurally replayed during sleep, and this is important for their consolidation and integration with prior knowledge.  Targeted Memory Reactivation (TMR) is a technique which can be used to trigger the replay of specific memories on demand.  In this talk I will first describe a study which suggests that sleep plays a role the in integrating new information into pre-existing knowledge frameworks (or schemas).  I will next describe two studies which use TMR to examine a) the role memory replay in facilitating the emergence of explicit knowledge from implicitly learned material, and b) the role of memory replay in reducing emotional content of memories.  I will finish up by discussing a new method for identifying TMR cued replay in sleep using EEG classifiers.

Host: Professor Gareth Gaskell