Paul Frankland holds a Canada Research Chair in Memory Research. His research has addressed classical questions in the memory field: Why do we lose our earliest childhood memories? Are memories are broadly distributed or localized in the brain? How does the brain forget? Is it possible to implant memories? In addressing these questions, Frankland has combined an acute grasp of history with the early adoption of powerful new technologies in neuroscience. This has enabled his group to visualize and manipulate neural ensembles involved in memory encoding, consolidation and storage and, in doing so, shed new light on these classical questions.