thoughts of “The Making and Remaking of Memory”

The Making and Remaking of Memory

记忆的形成和重构

报告人: Lynn Nadel

Department of Psychology, University of Arizona

报告时间：2018年11月12日 上午10:00-12:00

报告地点：北京师范大学京师学堂第三会议室

报告人简介：

Lynn Nadel is currently Regents Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Cognitive Science. His work has focused on the functions of the hippocampus in memory and spatial cognition, leading to significant contributions in the study of stress and memory, sleep and memory, memory reconsolidation, and the mental retardation observed in Down syndrome.  He has promulgated, with collaborators, two highly influential theories in cognitive neuroscience: the cognitive map theory of hippocampal function, and the multiple trace theory of memory. He was the co-recipient in 2005 of the Grawemeyer Prize in Psychology (for the “cognitive map” theory) and received the National Down Syndrome Society’s Award for Research (2006), the Sisley-Lejeune International Prize for Research on Intellectual Disability (2013), the Society for Experimental Psychologist’s Lifetime Achievement Award (2016), the Gold Medal for Lifetime Achievement from the American Psychological Foundation (2017) and the William James Fellow Award from the American Psychological Society (2019).  His research, published in over 200 journal articles, chapters and books, has been supported by grants from NIMH, NSF, NICHD, NINDS and several private foundations.  He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Society of Experimental Psychologists.

报告摘要：

The hippocampus has been linked to both memory and spatial cognition for over 40 years. In this talk I will review some early history of memory research, and how the discovery of place cells in the rat hippocampus transformed the field. The theory that emerged, linking the hippocampus to cognitive maps and context memory, has been supported in work with many species, and it has a number of implications for the study of memory. I will consider some of these briefly before exploring in depth the implications for the processes of memory consolidation and reconsolidation. I will describe studies exploring the effects of memory reactivation, and conditions under which reactivated memories can be updated.

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上午听了如上报告，很有趣的研究，Lynn Nadel已是成绩斐然，对于初涉记忆研究领域的我而言，这场讲座也是趣味盎然。Lynn Nadel讲述了关于海马与记忆的研究如何演绎，最后讲到了remake记忆，意味着我们其实可以重塑记忆，目前还在临床试验阶段，如果哪天真的实现了临床上的记忆重塑，对很多记忆创伤的病人是很大的福音。

2018.11.12