BIP! Finder - What is memory? The present state of the engram

2016 • What is memory? The present state of the engram

Authors: Andrii Rudenko; Matthew Shtrahman; Richard W. Tsien; Stephen T. Johnston; Tobias Bonhoeffer; J. Tiago Gonçalves; Michele Pignatelli; Gord Fishell; John D. Long; Yang Dan; György Buzsáki; Tomás J. Ryan; Caitlin Mullins; Charles F. Stevens; Kelsey C. Martin; Mu-ming Poo; Susumu Tonegawa; Li-Huei Tsai; Fred H. Gage

Venue: BMC Biology

Type: Publication

Abstract: The mechanism of memory remains one of the great unsolved problems of biology. Grappling with the question more than a hundred years ago, the German zoologist Richard Semon formulated the concept of the engram, lasting connections in the brain that result from simultaneous "excitations", whose precise physical nature and consequences were out of reach of the biology of his day. Neuroscientists now have the knowledge and tools to tackle this question, however, and this Forum brings together leading contemporary views on the mechanisms of memory ... (read more)

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Topics: Cognitive science Neuroscience Epistemology

DOI: 10.1186/s12915-016-0261-6

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