Feindel Brain & Mind Series: Janice Chen

Studying Memory for Natural Events Across Multiple Timescales

Abstract: What will you remember about this moment? Some details of our lives are destined to be forgotten, while others are retained in memory for seconds, minutes, hours, or even years. Information from these different eras of our memories continually influences our thoughts and actions in the present. Furthermore, events in the experiential stream are deeply connected to each other by factors such as shared features and causal influence; this network of connections guides how we engage encoding and retrieval processes during ongoing experience, as well as shapes the organization of episodic memories. I will discuss behavioral and neuroscientific studies examining how the brain implements multiple timescales of memory, and the prominent role that causal connections play in memory for real-world events.

Bio: Janice Chen's work aims to understand how we construct and retrieve memories of complex real-world episodes. Janice uses realistic stimuli (such as movies and narratives) and behaviors (such as spoken recall) that contain rich natural semantics and unfold continuously across multiple timescales. Using novel between-brain temporal and pattern analysis methods, Chen asks how mnemonic and sensory systems operate together dynamically to create the present moment.

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