Here's one of our nominations for the Aspirational Neuroscience 2025 Award! Sammons et al. at Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin. CA3 pyramidal neurons form a recurrent network sufficient for pattern completion. See more nominees and RSVP via our bio to join us at #SfN25.

Here's one of our nominations for the Aspirational Neuroscience 2025 Award! Ding et al. at Baylor College of Medicine found that functional connectomics reveals a general “like-to-like” wiring rule. See more nominees and RSVP via our bio to join us at #SfN25.

Here’s one of our nominations for the Aspirational Neuroscience 2025 Award! Uytiepo et al. at UCLA show that fear-memory engrams form through presynaptic growth of multisynaptic boutons, even without coordinated postsynaptic activation. #SfN25

Here’s one of our nominations for the Aspirational Neuroscience 2025 Award! Ko et al. at KAIST show that systems consolidation reorganizes hippocampal engram circuitry—CA3-to-CA1 synapses cluster as memories age, driven by adult-born neurons. #SfN25

Here's one of our nominations for the Aspirational Neuroscience 2025 Award! Chettih et al. show that each food-cache encodes a sparse hippocampal “barcode” orthogonal to place cells and reactivated on retrieval. #SfN25

Here's one of our nominations for the Aspirational Neuroscience 2025 Award! Dorkenwald et al. map ~2k synapses among L2/3 pyramidal neurons and find a bimodal size distribution—consistent with binary strength states plus analog noise. #SfN25

Here’s one of our nominations for the Aspirational Neuroscience 2025 Award! Wright et al. demonstrate compartmental plasticity, including apical potentiation from local coactivity (spike-independent) and basal requirements for pre- and post-coincidence (2-photon imaging). #SfN25

Here's one of our ten nominations for the Aspirational Neuroscience 2025 Award! Abatis et al. show fear learning strengthens recurrent LA-engram synapses, forming an attractor driving recall (viral tagging + 12-cell patch-clamp). See nominees & RSVP in bio. #SfN25

Here's one of our nominations for the Aspirational Neuroscience 2025 Award! Bittner et al. at HHMI Janelia/Stanford identified seconds-scale, non-Hebbian plasticity via dendritic plateaus that imprint CA1 place fields. Join us at #SfN25

Aspirational Neuroscience 2025 Nominee: Tavakoli et al. (Institute of Science and Technology Austria) developed a new technique, light-microscopy-based connectomics, to fully trace all neuronal connections in brain tissue using fluorescence microscopy. #SfN2025

Here's one of our ten nominations for the Aspirational Neuroscience 2025 Award! Lappalainen et al. fixed a recurrent network’s wiring to the Drosophila optic-lobe connectome, then task-optimized its remaining neuron/synapse parameters for optic-flow detection. #SfN2025

Memory Decoding advances nominated for 2025 Aspirational Neuroscience Awards! aspirationalneuroscience.org/nominations-... Join the catered SfN satellite event with Experts panel discussion: Nov. 17 @ 7pm, Hilton San Diego Bayfront room Cobalt 500 #memorydecoding #aspirationalneuroscience #SfN2025

#Throwback to #AspirationalNeuroscience2023: Ghosh et al. and Xiong et al. at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory revealed how the brain establishes and maintains learned associations between sounds and actions through selective strengthening of corticostriatal synapses. #SfN25

Here's one of our ten nominations for the Aspirational Neuroscience 2025 Award! Lappalainen et al. fixed a recurrent network’s wiring to the Drosophila optic-lobe connectome, then task-optimized its remaining neuron/synapse parameters for optic-flow detection. #SfN2025

1 week until our satellite event at SFN SD! RSVP at the link in our bio.

#Throwback to #AspirationalNeuroscience2023: here's one of our six winners from Aspirational Neuroscience 2023! J-H. Choi et al. & D. Choi et al. at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology provided insights into encoding memories at a structural & molecular level. #SfN2025

Here's one of our ten nominations for the Aspirational Neuroscience 2025 Award! Tavakoli et al. at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria developed a new technique, light-microscopy-based connectomics, to fully trace all neuronal connections in brain tissue using fluorescence microscopy.

2 weeks until our satellite event at SFN SD! RSVP at link in bio.

Remembering past winners and nominations for the Aspirational Neuroscience Awards!

Memory Decoding advances nominated for 2025 Aspirational Neuroscience Awards!

The Aspirational Neuroscience Awards exist to honor and highlight groundbreaking scientific to research into how learning and memory are physically encoded in the brain. Here is one of the 2025 nominations: A Drosophila computational brain model reveals sensorimotor processing Author(s): Shiu et al

Journal club TODAY at 3 pm US Pacific Time: Functional Connectomics Reveals General Wiring Rule in Mouse Visual Cortex -- join at carboncopies.org/aspirational... #neuroscience #memorydecoding #aspirationalneuroscience #connectomics #mouse

Join us TODAY at 3 pm US Pacific time for "Connectomic traces of Hebbian plasticity in the entorhinal-hippocampal system" at carboncopies.org/aspirational... #memorydecoding #aspirationalneuroscience #hippocampal #plasticity #connectome

Join us TODAY at carboncopies.org/aspirational... for a memory decoding journal club about plasticity rules in dendritic compartments presented by Dr. Kenneth Hayworth #memory #decoding #neuroscience #plasticity #dendrites

Join our Memory Decoding journal club to discuss the paper "A combinatorial neural code for long-term motor memory" - on Tue., Sep. 9 at 3 pm US Pacific Time at carboncopies.org/aspirational... #memory #decoding #neuroscience #LTM #motor

Join our Memory Decoding journal club "Behavioral time scale synaptic plasticity underlies CA1 place fields" TODAY at 3 pm US Pacific Time carboncopies.org/aspirational... #memory #decoding #aspirational #neuroscience #plasticity #hippocampus

Join us Tomorrow - Tue Aug 12 - at 3 pm PDT for "The Dendritic Engram", a Memory Decoding journal club carboncopies.org/Events/Journ... #neuroscience #memory #dendritic #aspirational #decoding

Join our Special Session of the Memory Decoding journal club to discuss proposed papers to be nominated for the Aspirational Neuroscience Prize at SfN2025. Tuesday at 3 pm PDT at carboncopies.org/aspirational... #neuroscience #memory #decoding

Binary & analog variation of Synapses - Join the journal club today at 3 pm PDT carboncopies.org/Events/Journ... #neuroscience, #memory, #decoding

Join our Memory Decoding journal club on TUESDAY: carboncopies.org/Events/Journ... #neuroscience #memory #decoding #aspirational #prize

Join tomorrow 3 pm PDT! Systems consolidation reorganizes hippocampal engram circuitry - carboncopies.org/Events/Journ... #neuroscience #memory #decoding #hippocampus #consolidation

Join our next Memory Decoding journal club: carboncopies.org/Events/Journ... #neuroscience #memory #decoding #aspirational #hippocampus

Join us at the Memory Decoding journal club! "Neocortical synaptic engrams for remote contextual memories" June 17 - carboncopies.org/Events/Journ... #aspirationalneuroscience, #memorydecoding, #neocortex, #EM, #reconstruction

Join us at the Memory Decoding journal club! "Structure and function of the hippocampal CA3 module" June 3 - carboncopies.org/Events/Journ... #aspirationalneuroscience, #memorydecoding, #hippocampus, #EM, #reconstruction

Join us at the Memory Decoding journal club! "Structure and function of the hippocampal CA3 module" June 3 - carboncopies.org/Events/Journ... #aspirationalneuroscience, #memorydecoding, #hippocampus, #EM, #reconstruction

Join Us for the Memory Decoding Journal Club! "Synaptic architecture of a memory engram in the mouse hippocampus" carboncopies.org/Events/Journ... #Neuroscience #MemoryResearch #Hippocampus #JournalClub #BrainScience #Carboncopies #AspirationalNeuroscience

Join Us for the Memory Decoding Journal Club! "Synaptic architecture of a memory engram in the mouse hippocampus" carboncopies.org/Events/Journ... #Neuroscience #MemoryResearch #Hippocampus #JournalClub #BrainScience #Carboncopies #AspirationalNeuroscience

Join Us for the Memory Decoding Journal Club! "Motor learning selectively strengthens cortical and striatal synapses of motor engram neurons" carboncopies.org/Events/Journ... #Neuroscience #MemoryResearch #MotorNeurons #JournalClub #BrainScience #Carboncopies #AspirationalNeuroscience

Join Us for the Memory Decoding Journal Club! "Motor learning selectively strengthens cortical and striatal synapses of motor engram neurons" carboncopies.org/Events/Journ... #Neuroscience #MemoryResearch #MotorNeurons #JournalClub #BrainScience #Carboncopies #AspirationalNeuroscience