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SUMMARY:How is continuous experience transformed into discrete memories? -
  Dr. Aya Ben-Akov (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit\, Cambridge)
DTSTART:20171102T131000Z
DTEND:20171102T140000Z
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CONTACT:Lorena Escudero
DESCRIPTION:Going through life\, our senses perceive a continuous flow of 
 information. Yet when we reminisce about the past\, we remember experience
 s as discrete events. How does this occur? A leading theory (Event Segment
 ation Theory) suggests that salient changes result in prediction error (a 
 failure to predict the immediate future)\, and are interpreted as boundari
 es between events. This\, in turn\, is thought to drive encoding of the pr
 eceding event to memory\, while cleaning the slate for new information. I 
 will discuss evidence supporting this theory\, demonstrating that the hipp
 ocampus – a brain region strongly identified with formation of new memor
 ies – is particularly sensitive to the occurrence of event boundaries in
  naturalistic experience.
LOCATION:The Richard King Room\, Darwin College
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