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SUMMARY:How we remember and how we forget -  Aidan J Horner\, Department o
 f Psychology\, University of York\, York Biomedical Research Institute\, U
 niversity of York
DTSTART:20191025T153000Z
DTEND:20191025T170000Z
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CONTACT:Louise White
DESCRIPTION:Our ability to remember complex real-world events is thought t
 o be supported by ‘event engrams’ – coherent representations of the 
 constituent elements of any event that allow for later recollection. The h
 ippocampus is thought to support these representations\, receiving input f
 rom multiple neocortical regions to bind together the multiple elements of
  any event. At retrieval\, a partial cue is thought to lead to the retriev
 al of a complete event engram (pattern completion) and subsequent reinstat
 ement in the neocortex. I will present behavioural\, computational and fMR
 I evidence to support the proposal that recollection is supported by the e
 xistence of complex event engrams in the hippocampus that are retrieved an
 d reinstated by a pattern completion process. I will then ask how such eve
 nt engrams are forgotten – do they fragment such that we forget some asp
 ects of an event whilst retaining others\, or are they forgotten in a rela
 tively all-or-none fashion? Across a body of research\, I will provide evi
 dence that complex events are both remembered and forgotten in a relativel
 y all-or-none manner – event engrams are encoded in a highly coherent ma
 nner and retain this coherence over time.\n\nAidan completed his BSc in ps
 ychology and MSc in cognitive neuroscience at the University of York\, and
  his PhD in cognitive Neuroscience at the Unversity of Cambridge. He held 
 postdoctoral positions at the Otto-von-Guericke University and University 
 College London. He is currently a lecturer in psychology at the University
  of York.\n\n
LOCATION:Ground Floor Lecture Theatre\, Department of Psychology
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