Episodic memories are multifaceted and malleable, capable of being transformed with time
and experience at both the neural level and psychological level. At the neural level, episodic …

A schema refers to a structured body of prior knowledge that captures common patterns
across related experiences. Schemas have been studied separately in the realms of …

Investigation of the hippocampus has historically focused on computations within the
trisynaptic circuit. However, discovery of important anatomical and functional variability …

The ability to represent the world accurately relies on simultaneous coarse and fine-grained
neural information coding, capturing both gist and detail of an experience. The longitudinal …

Our ability to remember or imagine specific events involves the construction of complex
mental representations, a process that engages cortical and hippocampal regions in a core …

The last decade has seen dramatic technological and conceptual changes in research on
episodic memory and the brain. New technologies, and increased use of more naturalistic …

Sleep is pivotal for memory consolidation. According to two-stage accounts, memory traces
are gradually translocated from hippocampus to neocortex during non-rapid-eye-movement …

Dietary habits such as caloric restriction or nutrients that mimic these effects may exert
beneficial effects on brain aging. The plant-derived polyphenol resveratrol has been shown …

Highlights•The nature of a memory trace, not its age, determines its hippocampal
dependence.•Remote memories rich in perceptual detail still engage the hippocampus …

The hippocampus is known to be recruited during the recall of experiences from our distant
past, despite evidence that memory traces in this region vanish over time. Extant theories of …