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<br /><span style="font-size: 13pt">  On June 15, 2015, our dear friend and colleague, Anastasia Lyalenko, passed away at the age of 22, from complications related to viral myocarditis. Her passing was sudden, and her presence deeply missed. Anastasia was the first research member of the DARPA Restoring Active Memory project, and we continue to make use of the data she collected and the lessons she brought back to us from the various hospitals in which she worked, tirelessly collecting data and spending appreciated time with patients awaiting surgery in the epilepsy monitoring units. 
  
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<br /><span style="font-size: 13pt"> We value the time we were able to spend with this bright and talented young woman, who touched so many lives within our lab, at the many sites across the country with which she worked, and in the EMU and OR with the patients and staff who so enjoyed and trusted her. We are deeply saddened by her loss--our loss--and wish, through this [https://socialfundraising.apps.upenn.edu/socialFundraising/jsp/fast.do?fastButtonId=SORBIZPA&CID=104117280 Memorial Fund], to commemorate her illustrative light, which went out far too soon. Anastasia planned to go to medical school following her research experience with the Computational Memory Lab, and we wish to join her family and friends in continuing her legacy and her wish. In honor of Anastasia, a Memorial Fund has been started to commemorate the work to which she planned to dedicate her life, and to help other women who wish to pursue a career in medicine.  
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<br /><span style="font-size: 13pt">  Please visit the [https://socialfundraising.apps.upenn.edu/socialFundraising/jsp/fast.do?fastButtonId=SORBIZPA&CID=104117280 Anastasia Lyalenko Memorial Page] to donate.</span>
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| width="700pt" | <span style="font-size: 17pt; line-height: 130%">The Computational Memory Lab uses mathematical modeling and computational techniques to study human memory. We apply these quantitative methods both to data from laboratory studies of human memory and from electrophysiological studies involving direct human brain recordings in neurosurgical patients.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 13pt">Our research is focused on neurocomputational mechanisms of human episodic and spatial memory. Episodic memory refers to memory for events that are embedded in a temporal context. This includes both memory for significant life events and memory for common daily activities. In the laboratory, episodic memory is investigated by presenting lists of items (frequently words) for study, and then asking participants to recall the words. By analyzing the dynamics of the recall process one can quantify the way in which people transition from one recalled word to the next (see Fig. 1). <br /><br />Furthermore, by studying the electrophysiology of the brain while engaged in memory tasks, we can find, for example, regions that show increased or decreased activity when a word is successfully encoded (i.e., later recalled) versus when it is not successfully encoded, known as the ''subsequent memory effect'' (see Fig. 3).<br /><br />Two of our ongoing, large-scale data collection projects are the [[Penn Electrophysiology of Encoding and Retrieval Study]] ([[PEERS]]), a multi-session experiment with young and older adults combining free recall and scalp EEG (a book of these results can be found [http://memory.psych.upenn.edu/files/misc/ALL_ltpFR1_1-20_16-04-2015.pdf here]); and an effort to collect electrophysiological data on patients with intractable epilepsy (undergoing monitoring with intracranial electrodes at partnering local hospitals) while they participate in a variety of memory and decision-making tasks.</span>
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On June 15, 2015, our dear friend and colleague, Anastasia Lyalenko, passed away at the age of 22, from complications related to viral myocarditis. Her passing was sudden, and her presence deeply missed. Anastasia was the first research member of the DARPA Restoring Active Memory project, and we continue to make use of the data she collected and the lessons she brought back to us from the various hospitals in which she worked, tirelessly collecting data and spending appreciated time with patients awaiting surgery in the epilepsy monitoring units.


We value the time we were able to spend with this bright and talented young woman, who touched so many lives within our lab, at the many sites across the country with which she worked, and in the EMU and OR with the patients and staff who so enjoyed and trusted her. We are deeply saddened by her loss--our loss--and wish, through this Memorial Fund, to commemorate her illustrative light, which went out far too soon. Anastasia planned to go to medical school following her research experience with the Computational Memory Lab, and we wish to join her family and friends in continuing her legacy and her wish. In honor of Anastasia, a Memorial Fund has been started to commemorate the work to which she planned to dedicate her life, and to help other women who wish to pursue a career in medicine.


Please visit the Anastasia Lyalenko Memorial Page to donate.