Research

Memory processes in the healthy human brain are susceptible to disruption. We often forget what we were thinking about in one room when we cross a door into another room. We hypothesize that memory disruption at an event boundary such as a doorway can be measured in the human hippocampus. We aim to identify an electrophysiological marker of mental context in the hippocampus and to measure changes in this marker across a free recall memory task where a doorway is passed.

This research aims to provide a neurophysiologic measure of real-world forgetting across a doorway, help understand the influence of abnormal epileptiform brain activity and help device stimulation treatments that not only help for epileptic seizure but also for memory impairment in epilepsy.