ePoster · Neuroscience
Cortical reactivations predict future sensory responses
Nghia Nguyen, Mark Andermann, Andrew Lutas, Jesseba Fernando, Josselyn Vergara, Justin McMahon, Jordane Dimidschstein · COSYNE 2023
Sat, Mar 11, 2023
How do we learn about experiences while being removed from the experience itself? One solution involves offline learning via reactivations. Sensory reactivation involves the recurrence of a pattern of neural activity during sleep or quiet waking that previously occurred during a sensory experience. Prevailing theories of offline memory consolidation posit that the pattern of neurons activated during a sensory experience will be faithfully reactivated, thereby stabilizing the entire pattern. However, sensory-evoked patterns are not stable, but instead drift across repeated experiences. Our stud