The RUB news portal reports:

The brain constantly memorizes new experiences, which it has to integrate into the jumble of previous memories. Surprisingly, no old memory traces are overwritten in the process.

The first day at school: entering the classroom for the first time, the tingling in the stomach and the joy of receiving a school bag – these are all typical examples of memories from our episodic memory. It stores unique personal experiences in chronological and spatial order and links them to subjective experiences. In a study by the Institute of Neuroinformatics (INI) at the Faculty of Computer Science at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, a team led by Prof. Dr. Laurenz Wiskott has developed a new computer model of episodic memory and thus made significant progress in understanding the hippocampus – the region of the brain that is crucial for the formation of new episodic memories. The work was published in the journal PLOS ONE on June 20, 2024.

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