In this kick-off episode of the first season of Thesis the Life, we are talking with Patrese Robinson-Drummer, who defended her thesis at the University of Delaware within the past few years and has been working as a post-doc researcher at NYU. She will be starting a professorship in the coming year. Today she is talking to us about the "Ontogeny of Learning and Memory"; how the brain develops to support the gradual development of the ability to learn new things, form new associations, and draw on memory to guide behavior.

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