How Your Brain Chooses What to Remember

To try everything Brilliant has to offer—free—for a full 30 days, visit https://brilliant.org/ArtemKirsanov . You’ll also get 20% off an annual premium subscription ===== My name is Artem, I'm a neuroscience PhD student at Harvard University. 🌎 Website and Social links: https://kirsanov.ai/ 📥 "Receptive Field" neuro-newsletter: https://artemkirsanov.substack.com/ ✨ Support me on Patreon to get access to Discord community:   / artemkirsanov   ===== In this video, we explore how the brain tags which memories to keep and the role of a special brain wave – a hippocampal sharp-wave ripple in this process. Code for the video: https://github.com/ArtemKirsanov/Yout... 🕒 OUTLINE: 00:00 Introduction 01:11 Sharp-Wave Ripples 04:38 Memory Consolidation 6:36 Experimental Setup 07:58 UMAP & Population Activity 10:33 Maze Manifold 12:02 Decoding Ripple Content 13:57 Putting it together 15:42 Brilliant.org 16:56 Outro 📚 FURTHER READING & REFERENCES: Paper full text: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/s... Website: https://winnieyangwannan.github.io/Ri... ===== Clip with dancers:    • Jerome Robbins' The Concert - Mistake Walt...   Icons by Freepik and Biorender This video was sponsored by Brilliant ===== Disclaimer: This channel is my personal project. The views and content expressed here are my own and are separate from my research role at Harvard University. #neuroscience #memory #brain Description remastered: February 2026. Links & Bio updated; original context preserved.