Researcher Ai Koizumi’s paper has been published in Nature Communications.

This paper has been accepted for publication in Nature Communications.

A research team including Ai Koizumi, a researcher at Sony Computer Science Laboratories (Sony CSL), Dr. Aurelio Cortese, Director of the Behavioral Change Lab at the Department of Brain Information Communication Research, Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR), Professor Hiroshi Imamizu from the Department of Psychology at the University of Tokyo, and researcher Ryu Ohata, has uncovered a mechanism that explains two seemingly contradictory memory effects following a fear experience: the formation of “strong associative memories that cannot be forgotten” and “weakened temporal memories that cannot be recalled.”
Title : Time-dependent neural arbitration between cue associative and episodic fear memories. 
Journal : Nature Communications
Authors : Aurelio Cortese, Ryu Ohata, Maria Alemany-González, Norimichi Kitagawa, Hiroshi Imamizu, Ai Koizumi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-52733-4