Tuesday, September 20, 2016

Howard Eichenbaum (Boston University) discusses “memory fields” in hippocampus as a way to think about the fundamental associative properties of the hippocampus.  He introduces place cells, and discusses the discovery that these cells code for time as well as space, as well as other  dimensions.

Duration: 35 minutes

Discussants:(in alphabetical order)

Alfonso Apicella (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Isabel Muzzio (Assoc. Prof, UTSA)

Todd Troyer (Assoc. Prof, UTSA)

Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA)

Matt Wanat (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Charles Wilson (Ewing Halsell Chair, UTSA)

acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.