2025 a2 National Symposium Plenary Talk: Michael Kahana, PhD — AI-Guided Closed-Loop Stimulation to Enhance Memory
Memory performance exhibits substantial moment-to-moment variability, much of which cannot be explained by external factors alone. Dr. Michael Kahana’s research explores the neural underpinnings of this variability and leverages machine learning and intracranial brain recordings to develop targeted interventions for memory enhancement. Through the DARPA-funded Restoring Active Memory (RAM) project, Kahana’s team collected the largest open-access dataset of human intracranial recordings during memory tasks, enabling the development of predictive models that decode memory states in real time.