Join Us for an Intellectual Sunday!

Date: 11th Apr 2026
Time: 1:00 PM
Location: KICO Community, Cocktail, Coffee, Marks Square, St Mark's Rd, Shanthala Nagar, Ashok Nagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560001

The cost includes food & drinks.

About the lecture

This talk explores how the brain encodes, stores, and retrieves information—and why our memories are not always as reliable as we believe. Drawing from research on learning and memory, we look at how the brain processes experiences, often retaining more than we consciously realise.

It also delves into the fascinating phenomenon of false memories, or memory confabulation—when the brain fills in gaps, reshapes details, or even creates memories that feel completely real.

Blending science with everyday experiences, this session invites you to question not just what you remember, but how your memories are formed in the first place.

About the speaker

Balaji Jayaprakash is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Neuroscience at the Indian Institute of Science. His research focuses on understanding how the brain forms, stores, and retrieves memories.

Using advanced imaging techniques and experimental models, his work explores how specific groups of neurons encode experiences and how memories change over time. His research also looks at how emotional and contextual factors influence what we remember and how we recall it.