• DOI:10.1038/nrn4000
Corpus ID: 205511443

Finding the engram

@article{Josselyn2015FindingTE,
  title={Finding the engram},
  author={S. Josselyn and S. K{\"o}hler and P. Frankland},
  journal={Nature Reviews Neuroscience},
  year={2015},
  volume={16},
  pages={521-534}
}

S. Josselyn, S. Köhler, P. Frankland

Published 2015

Psychology, Medicine

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Many attempts have been made to localize the physical trace of a memory, or engram, in the brain. However, until recently, engrams have remained largely elusive. In this Review, we develop four defining criteria that enable us to critically assess the recent progress that has been made towards finding the engram. Recent 'capture' studies use novel approaches to tag populations of neurons that are active during memory encoding, thereby allowing these engram-associated neurons to be manipulated… CONTINUE READING

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