Hippocampal replay–the time-compressed, sequential reactivation of ensembles of neurons
related to past experience–is a key neural mechanism of memory consolidation. Replay …

Memory consolidation in the neocortex is thought to be mediated in part by bi-directional
modifications of synaptic strength. The sensorimotor cortex shows marked spontaneous …

Sequential activation of neurons that occurs during “offline” states, such as sleep or awake
rest, is correlated with neural sequences recorded during preceding exploration phases …

Consolidation stabilizes memory traces after initial encoding. Rodent studies suggest that
memory consolidation depends on replay of stimulus-specific activity patterns during fast …

Sequences of spiking activity have been heavily implicated as potential substrates of
memory formation and retrieval across many species. A parallel line of recent evidence also …

Accumulating evidence suggests that the synchronization of neuronal activity plays an
important role in memory formation. In particular, several recent studies have demonstrated …

Delay-related sustained activity in the prefrontal cortex of primates, a neurological analogue
of working memory, has been proposed to arise from synaptic interactions in local cortical …

Events that are important to an individual's life trigger neuromodulator release in brain areas
responsible for cognitive and behavioral function. While it is well known that the presence of …

Forming a memory often entails the association of recent experience with present events.
This recent experience is usually an information-rich and dynamic representation of the …

The consolidation of memories for places and events is thought to rely, at the network level,
on the replay of spatially tuned neuronal firing patterns representing discrete places and …