AANS Online Scientific Session: Stereotactic & Functional-Replay of Cortical Spiking Sequences Mediates Human Memory Retrie

Replay of Cortical Spiking Sequences Mediates Human Memory Retrie

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In this video, Alex Vaz, a fifth-year MD-PhD candidate at Duke University School of Medicine, discusses his thesis work on the replay of spiking sequences during human memory retrieval. He explores how the hippocampus communicates memory-related information across the brain and examines the neural code of human memory. Using human electrocorticography recordings from patients undergoing invasive monitoring for seizure activity, Vaz identifies coupled ripples in the middle temporal gyrus and the medial temporal lobe, suggesting their role in memory transfer. He also discovers sequences of neural activity during memory formation and retrieval, supporting the idea that sequence replay is a neural substrate for human memory retrieval. The video concludes with Vaz acknowledging his funding sources and collaborators.

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Alex Vaz

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Alex Vaz

MD-PhD candidate

Duke University School of Medicine

replay of spiking sequences

human memory retrieval