This November, at SFN 2022 in San Diego, I presented my research “Modeling the function of episodic memory in spatial learning” at the poster session “Episodic and episodic-like memory”. Using computational modelling I demonstrated, how episodic memory can facilitate learning in spatial navigation and compared three learning paradigms where memories are retrieved, replayed or absent. I also showed the benefits of sequential replay over random replay under certain conditions and reproduced qualitatively some experimental results by creating a hybrid learning agent where the three learning paradigms co-exist.

My research was well accepted and I was extremely happy and excited to share my results and to communicate with people who care about the brain and memory just as much as I do!