Let's meet Chris
Agenda
- Fun facts
- Memory
MA<>CT Border, May 2016
A Celebrity I met
Paul Samuelson
September 2012
Fintech software engineer working above a bakery
Fall
Memory
What is a memory?
First, neurons
Parts of a neurons
80-100 billion neurons, over 60 trillion connections
Memory == neuron activation patterns
What is deja vu?
A storage "collision"
Memory is an activation pattern, but experiencing events is also an activation pattern
How do experiences translate to memory?
Repetition, novelty, and "importance"
Consolidation
Sleep "replays" recent activation patterns
Adrenaline (epinephrine) strengthens recent activation patterns
Is memory static?
Recall activates specific neuron patterns
Activation patterns depend on strength of connections between neurons
Connections strengths constantly change (neural plasticity)
How we recall events changes every time we recall them
The End
Questions?