New publication by Professor Edwin Robertson
Published: 12 May 2020
Study by Professor Edwin Robertson and colleagues first to show memories that share a common structure are linked together
May, 2020 saw the publication of a special issue from the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society entitled “Memory reactivation: replaying events past, present and future” edited by Professor Edwin M Robertson and his colleague Lisa Genzel at the Donders Institute in the Netherlands.
Already it has attracted great interest with, for example, the consensus statement on terms and definitions for offline processing being downloaded over 1000 times in the first couple of weeks after publication. This special issue was the result of an earlier highly successful Royal Society meeting held at Chicheley Hall in May 2019.
Work showing that sleep and exercise combine to enhance memory performance more than either sleep or exercise alone was published in the journal Sleep. It captured a great deal of press attention including a very nice description in the Times. The work is the result of a collaboration with a group in Montreal with whom Professor Edwin Robertson recently received funding from the Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR).
Finally, work showing that modifying one memory “ripples out” to affect an entire dynamic network of memories linked together by sharing the same structure – revealing a novel mechanism of memory modification and communication – was published in Current Biology. This was the result of a project with Tuomas Mutanen and Martina Bracco.
It was recently described in a Brain Post contribution (see, https://www.brainpost.co/weekly-brainpost/2020/4/21/memories-that-share-a-common-structure-are-linked-together).
First published: 12 May 2020