Sean Polyn

Sean Polyn
brain gone memory patterns revived
Memory retrieval is like revisiting the past. Brain patterns that are long gone can be revived by the memory system.
experience forms lives memory pattern sort
When you have an experience, that experience is represented as a pattern of cortical activity. The memory system, which we think lives in the hippocampus, forms a sort of summary representation of everything that's going on in your cortex.