Building Blocks of Memory in the Brain

To try everything Brilliant has to offer—free—for a full 30 days, visit The first 200 of you will get 20% off Brilliant’s annual premium subscription. My name is Artem, I’m a computational neuroscience student and researcher. In this video we discuss engrams – fundamental units of memory in the brain. We explore what engrams are, how memory is allocated, where it is stored, and how different memories become linked with each other. Patreon: Twitter: OUTLINE: 00:00 - Introduction 00:39 - Historical background 01:44 - Fear conditioning paradigm 03:38 - Immediate-early genes as memory markers 08:13 - Engrams are necessary and sufficient for recall 10:16 - Excitabiliy and memory allocation 16:19 - Brain-wide engrams 18:12 - Linking memories together 24:20 - Summary 25:33 - Brilliant 27:09 - Outro REFERENCES (in no particular order): 1. R