Memory

…products, followed by a lecture on memory. The programme runs 09:00–17:00 Paris time on 4 November. In-person attendance is free with advance registration by 25 October; lunch depends on capacity, with

Experimental psychology research on attention, perception, learning, memory, language and reasoning falls within the society’s Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology remit. Supports small empirical projects in experimental psychology, including research assistance, participant costs, specialist software, scanning fees, essential small equipment and consumables. The maximum is GBP 10,000 for a project normally completed within one year. Applications are due 1 December 2026, with earliest start 1 February. Funds are reimbursed to the host institution in arrears; overheads, student fees and

Experimental psychology research on attention, perception, learning, memory, language and reasoning falls within the society’s Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology remit. Travel and accommodation support for a visit to another institution to learn experimental methods or undertake studies unavailable at the home department. Up to GBP 3,500 is available to the visitor, with up to GBP 100 of additional actual host costs. Subsistence, conference fees and poster costs are excluded. The next submission date is 1 December 2026; visits should start at least three months after submission. Appl

…create complex sequences in language, memory, music, dance and narrative relates to behavioural sequencing in other animals. The meeting uses ecological demands on animal behaviour to explore the evolution of these abilities and fundamental questions in comparative cognitive science. This Theo Murphy meeting is intended for researchers in relevant fields and takes place in person. Attendance is free but requires an invitation: applicants state their expertise and reasons for attending, and organisers review requests on a rolling basis. Cater

This meeting connects basic and applied research on memory and cognition, emphasizing work that is both theoretically grounded and relevant to real-world settings. Researchers at all career stages can present individual talks and posters or organize 75-minute symposia with four to six presentations and a discussant. The programme supports exchange across methods and applications, with dedicated opportunities for students and early-career researchers. Abstract and symposium submissions close on 2 November 2026.

…health; Sheena Josselyn addresses memory and engrams; and Christine Yu Moutier considers translating suicide-prevention science into action. Jeffrey Borenstein gives the welcome and Carol A. Tamminga moderates. The programme runs on 30 October from 09:30 to 12:30 EDT. Partici

Paul Middlebrooks talks with Andrea Hiott, a philosopher at Universität Heidelberg with degrees across philosophy and neuroscience, about her book Holding Paradox: The Navigational Approach to Mind. A theme running through her work is that we need to go beyond dichotomous thinking and learn to hold paradoxes as they are. The navigational approach is her proposal for what should replace the computational metaphor of the mind. In the book she uses the history of research on the hippocampus to illustrate both ideas: the hippocampus has two parallel research histories, one treating it as the seat

…and the neural mechanisms that support memory-guided cognition and decisions. The seminar draws on systems electrophysiology and circuit analysis to connect distributed network dynamics with behavior.

…how using AI may affect thinking, memory and creative work. They examine cognitive offloading, the potential contributions of AI tools, and which parts of intellectual activity benefit from continued human engagement.

…disease pathophysiology and memory impairment. The William C. Dement Seminar connects sleep and circadian neuroscience with neurodegeneration, cognition and clinically relevant approaches to detecting disease-related change.

…to memories, how dopamine shapes memory-guided decisions, and how bodily signals influence learning. Isabel Low moderates a public discussion and question session.

…the hippocampus supports learning and memory early in life. The seminar connects neural development, memory formation and infantile amnesia through new methods for studying awake infants.

…and its relationship to learning, memory and navigation. He explains how AI models can help investigate these dynamics, alongside questions about model systems, cognitive maps and the relationship between neuroscience experiments and theory.

…in attention and internal state to memory and prediction. The conversation explores interoception, engagement with the external world and memory reconsolidation as possible ways to explain hypnotic experience.

…and their relationship to replay and memory. The conversation connects different ripple patterns and neuron types to population activity, asking how particular cells help shape the lower-dimensional dynamics used to describe neural computation.

The hippocampus is thought to build a cognitive map that supports navigation, memory, and planning, but what defines such a map and how it is used remain debated. In this talk, I will present computational models in which hippocampal-like representations emerge in recurrent neural networks trained to predict sequences of sensory observations. While spatially tuned units reliably arise, they are not sufficient to form a cognitive map. Instead, map-like representations emerge when recurrent dynamics support multi-step prediction, yielding a population-level encoding of environmental geometry. On

…In contrast, examining how memory-related-top-down information is encoded and integrated with bottom-up signals has long been challenging. Here, I will discuss our recent work pinpointing the outermost layer 1 of neocortex as a central hotspot for processing of experience-dependent top

…she considers the relationship between memory and mood, robustness and fragility, modelling, standardisation and iterative changes in how researchers frame the problems they study.

Synaptic architecture of a memory engram in the mouse hippocampus

…that are crucial for declarative memory formation. It has thus been hypothesized that they may represent the semantic "building blocks" of episodic memories. In this talk I will present data from

Join us for the Memory Decoding Journal Club, a collaboration between the Carboncopies Foundation and BPF Aspirational Neuroscience. This month, we're diving into a groundbreaking paper: 'Reconstructing a new hippocampal engram for systems reconsolidation and remote memory updating' by Bo Lei, Bilin Kang, Yuejun Hao, Haoyu Yang, Zihan Zhong, Zihan Zhai, and Yi Zhong from Tsinghua University, Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence, IDG/McGovern Institute of Brain Research, and Peking Union Medical College. Dr. Randal Koene will guide us through an engaging discussion on these exciting findi

Hippocampal studies provide a rich window into the mechanisms of memory via the paradigm of spatial navigation. To interpret neural responses, it is common practice to first build encoding models using position during locomotion as the label, and then decode the position using this model. Of particular interest is the mismatch between the decoded and the actual position, for instance, replay of non-local trajectories during rest. However, it is unclear whether a priori chosen labels explain neural data the best. By imposing spatial structure to times of immobility, we may be systematically mis

This webinar on learning and memory features three experts—Nicolas Brunel, Ashok Litwin-Kumar, and Julijana Gjorgieva—who present theoretical and computational approaches to understanding how neural circuits acquire and store information across different scales. Brunel discusses calcium-based plasticity and how standard “Hebbian-like” plasticity rules inferred from in vitro or in vivo datasets constrain synaptic dynamics, aligning with classical observations (e.g., STDP) and explaining how synaptic connectivity shapes memory. Litwin-Kumar explores insights from the fruit fly connectome, emphas

The hippocampus (HC) plays a pivotal role in spatial navigation and memory in the human brain. Place cells, specialised neurons residing within the hippocampus, exhibit selective firing patterns corresponding to specific spatial locations, collectively contributing to the cognitive mapping of the environment. In healthy state, the place fields in the CA1 region exhibits continuous representational turnover [1]. Spatial navigation is disrupted in Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). AD, a neurodegenerative disorder characterised by progressive cognitive decline, is associated with deficits in learning a