Concept information
Preferred term
engram
Definition
- "The engram may be defined as that entity that reflects the neural substrate of stored information resulting from past experience and bestowing upon organisms the ability to express memory in their behavior." (Josselyn et al., 2017, p. 4647).
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
Synonym(s)
- memory engram
- memory trace
- mneme
- mnemonic trace
- mnesic trace
- neurogram
Belongs to group
Bibliographic citation(s)
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• Brodt, S., & Gais, S. (2021). Memory engrams in the neocortex. The Neuroscientist, 27(4), 427–444. https://doi.org/10.1177/1073858420941528
• Document type: literature review
• Access: free
- • Dudai, Y. (2004). The neurobiology of consolidations, or, how stable is the engram? Annual Review of Psychology, 55, 51-86. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.psych.55.090902.142050
• Document type: literature review
• Access: closed
- • Gerber, B., Tanimoto, H., & Heisenberg, M. (2004). An engram found? Evaluating the evidence from fruit flies. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 14(6), 737–744. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conb.2004.10.014
• Document type: literature review
• Access: open
- • Han, J.-H., Kushner, S. A., Yiu, A. P., Hsiang, H.-L., Buch, T., Waisman, A., Bontempi, B., Neve, R. L., Frankland, P. W., & Josselyn, S. A. (2009). Selective erasure of a fear memory. Science, 323(5920), 1492–1496. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1164139
• Document type: empirical study
• Access: closed
- • Josselyn, S. A., Köhler, S., & Frankland, P. W. (2015). Finding the engram. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 16(9), 521–534. https://doi.org/10.1038/nrn4000
• Document type: literature review
• Access: closed
- • Josselyn, S. A., Köhler, S., & Frankland, P. W. (2017). Heroes of the engram. Journal of Neuroscience, 37(18), 4647–4657. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0056-17.2017
• Document type: literature review
• Access: open
- • Josselyn, S. A., & Tonegawa, S. (2020). Memory engrams : Recalling the past and imagining the future. Science, 367(6473), eaaw4325. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaw4325
• Document type: literature review
• Access: open
- • Lashley, K.S. (1950). In search of the engram. Society of Experimental Biology, Symposium No. 4: Physiological mechanisms in animal behaviour (pp. 454 -482). Cambridge University Press.
• Document type: literature review
• Access: closed
- • Lopez, M. R., Wasberg, S. M. H., Gagliardi, C. M., Normandin, M. E., & Muzzio, I. A. (2024). Mystery of the memory engram: History, current knowledge, and unanswered questions. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 105574. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2024.105574
• Document type: literature review
• Access: open
- • Miry, O., Li, J., & Chen, L. (2021). The quest for the hippocampal memory engram: From theories to experimental evidence. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 14. Scopus. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2020.632019
• Document type: literature review
• Access: open
- • Najenson, J. (2021). What have we learned about the engram? Synthese, 199(3), 9581–9601. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-021-03216-2
• Document type: literature review
• Access: closed
- • Poo, M., Pignatelli, M., Ryan, T. J., Tonegawa, S., Bonhoeffer, T., Martin, K. C., Rudenko, A., Tsai, L.-H., Tsien, R. W., Fishell, G., Mullins, C., Gonçalves, J. T., Shtrahman, M., Johnston, S. T., Gage, F. H., Dan, Y., Long, J., Buzsáki, G., & Stevens, C. (2016). What is memory? The present state of the engram. BMC Biology, 14(1), 40. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-016-0261-6
• Document type: literature review
• Access: open
- • Robins, S. K. (2017). Memory traces. In S. Bernecker & K. Michaelian (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of philosophy of memory (pp. 76–87). Routledge.
• Document type: literature review
• Access: closed
- • Robins, S. K. (2020). Stable engrams and neural dynamics. Philosophy of Science, 87(5), 1130–1139. https://doi.org/10.1086/710624
{{#each properties}}• Document type: literature review
• Access: closed
- • Schacter, D. L., Eich, J. E., & Tulving, E. (1978). Richard Semon’s theory of memory. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 17(6), 721–743. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0022-5371(78)90443-7
• Document type: literature review
• Access: closed
- • Semon, R. (1904/1921). The Mneme. London: George Allen & Unwin.
• Document type: literature review
• Access: closed
- • Semon, R. (1909/1923). Mnemic Psychology. London: George Allen & Unwin.
• Document type: literature review
• Access: closed
- • Sutton, J. (1998). Philosophy and memory traces: Descartes to connectionism. Cambridge University Press.
• Document type: literature review
• Access: closed
Creator
- Frank Arnould
Has study method(s)
In other languages
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French
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empreinte mnésique
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mnème
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neurogramme
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trace mnésique
URI
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