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Artem Kirsanov: Building Blocks of Memory in the Brain
A Harvard neuroscience researcher animates the engram literature properly: fear conditioning, immediate-early genes that tag the neurons active during learning, optogenetic experiments showing those cells are necessary and sufficient for recall, and how a neuron's excitability decides which memories it joins and which memories get linked. It cites the primary papers and treats you like someone who can follow them.
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Exploring how neural systems learn and compute — at the intersection of neuroscience, computer science, and mathematics. Created by a Harvard neuroscience researcher.
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