title: Shining a light on memory representations.
abstract: A recent study provides an exciting glimpse into the representations of events as they appear in the brain by showing that optogenetic activation of the neural representation of an environment can substitute for the actual experience and produce memories in a manner consistent with natural exposure to stimuli.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, MRC/Wellcome Trust Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EB, UK. Electronic address: lms42@cam.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Lisa M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Saksida
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D056547:CA1 Region, Hippocampal / Q000502:physiology*; D003213:Conditioning, Psychological; D018891:Dentate Gyrus / Q000502:physiology*; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology*; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology*