David Halpern (Columbia)

Presenter: David Halpern (Columbia University)

Title: Identifying causal memory mechanisms

Abstract:
What happens at the time of encoding that causes you to remember something later? This is a challenging question to answer and I’ll discuss the implications of using observational studies to find neural memory mechanisms. In a dataset with a novel experimental design, I’ll show how taking causality seriously might change our interpretation of results in the literature on subsequent memory effects. Time permitting, I’ll discuss some of my more recent work investigating how consolidation processes might explain variability in subsequent memory, even during ongoing experience.