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Serra E. Favila

Postdoctoral Scientist, Columbia University
Verified email at columbia.edu
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[HTML][HTML] Transforming the concept of memory reactivation

SE Favila, H Lee, BA Kuhl - Trends in neurosciences, 2020 - cell.com
Reactivation refers to the phenomenon wherein patterns of neural activity expressed during
perceptual experience are re-expressed at a later time, a putative neural marker of memory. …

Prospective representation of navigational goals in the human hippocampus

TI Brown, VA Carr, KF LaRocque, SE Favila… - Science, 2016 - science.org
Mental representation of the future is a fundamental component of goal-directed behavior.
Computational and animal models highlight prospective spatial coding in the hippocampus, …

[HTML][HTML] Experience-dependent hippocampal pattern differentiation prevents interference during subsequent learning

SE Favila, AJH Chanales, BA Kuhl - Nature communications, 2016 - nature.com
… increasing across the three scene–object test cycles (β=1.20, se=0.14). There was no main
effect of scene subcategory ( … Parameter estimates and se for the predictors are also reported. …

[PDF][PDF] Overlap among spatial memories triggers repulsion of hippocampal representations

AJH Chanales, A Oza, SE Favila, BA Kuhl - Current Biology, 2017 - cell.com
Across the domains of spatial navigation and episodic memory, the hippocampus is thought
to play a critical role in disambiguating (pattern separating) representations of overlapping …

Parietal representations of stimulus features are amplified during memory retrieval and flexibly aligned with top-down goals

SE Favila, R Samide, SC Sweigart… - Journal of …, 2018 - Soc Neuroscience
In studies of human episodic memory, the phenomenon of reactivation has traditionally
been observed in regions of occipitotemporal cortex (OTC) involved in visual perception. …

[HTML][HTML] Abrupt hippocampal remapping signals resolution of memory interference

G Wanjia, SE Favila, G Kim, RJ Molitor… - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
Remapping refers to a decorrelation of hippocampal representations of similar spatial
environments. While it has been speculated that remapping may contribute to the resolution of …

Individual differences in associative memory among older adults explained by hippocampal subfield structure and function

VA Carr, JD Bernstein, SE Favila… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Older adults experience impairments in episodic memory, ranging from mild to clinically
significant. Given the critical role of the medial temporal lobe (MTL) in episodic memory, age-…

[HTML][HTML] Perception and memory have distinct spatial tuning properties in human visual cortex

SE Favila, BA Kuhl, J Winawer - Nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
Reactivation of earlier perceptual activity is thought to underlie long-term memory recall.
Despite evidence for this view, it is unclear whether mnemonic activity exhibits the same tuning …

[PDF][PDF] Hippocampal differentiation of competing memories predicts the precision of preparatory coding in visual cortex.

SE Favila, M Aly - Biorxiv: the Preprint Server for Biology, 2023 - sfavila.github.io
Many memories contain overlapping features, causing them to compete. How do we overcome
memory competition to guide attention in complex environments? We hypothesized that …

Stimulating memory consolidation

SE Favila, BA Kuhl - Nature neuroscience, 2014 - nature.com
… Serra E Favila … Although one might expect that caffeine administration just before a
memory test would confer some benefit, lure discrimination was equivalent between groups …