This Special Feature explores the various purposes served by sleep, describing current
attempts to understand how the many functions of sleep are instantiated in neural circuits …

Influential views of systems memory consolidation posit that the hippocampus rapidly forms
representations of specific events, while neocortical networks extract regularities across …

Introduction Declarative memories are initially dependent on the hippocampus and become
stabilized through the neural reorganization of connections between the medial temporal …

Prospective memory (PM), or memory for future intentions, engages particular cortical
regions. Lesion studies also implicate the thalamus, with PM deterioration following thalamic …

Psychedelics have been proposed to be highly efficacious in the treatment of various
psychiatric conditions with preliminary evidence for efficacy in highly controlled clinical trial …

As time passes after learning, connections between the hippocampus and neocortex
gradually change. The exact time course of these changes is not well established and …

Recently, advances in computer vision have made possible the reconstruction of images
based on the information available to us in brain activity. The Natural Scenes Dataset (NSD) …