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CATEGORIES:Darwin College Science Seminars
SUMMARY:How is continuous experience transformed into disc
 rete memories? - Dr. Aya Ben-Akov (MRC Cognition a
 nd Brain Sciences Unit\, Cambridge)
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20171102T131000
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UID:TALK80991AThttp://talks.cam.ac.uk
URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/80991
DESCRIPTION:Going through life\, our senses perceive a continu
 ous flow of information. Yet when we reminisce abo
 ut the past\, we remember experiences as discrete 
 events. How does this occur? A leading theory (Eve
 nt Segmentation Theory) suggests that salient chan
 ges result in prediction error (a failure to predi
 ct the immediate future)\, and are interpreted as 
 boundaries between events. This\, in turn\, is tho
 ught to drive encoding of the preceding event to m
 emory\, while cleaning the slate for new informati
 on. I will discuss evidence supporting this theory
 \, demonstrating that the hippocampus – a brain re
 gion strongly identified with formation of new mem
 ories – is particularly sensitive to the occurrenc
 e of event boundaries in naturalistic experience.
LOCATION:The Richard King Room\, Darwin College
CONTACT:Lorena Escudero
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