The hippocampus and memory: the right amount of disorder for the curious mind
Decades of research have elucidated the role of the mammalian hippocampus in spatial memory, particularly by focusing on small laboratory animals like rats, mice and bats alongside human and non-human primates. Yet, just when a mechanistic understanding seemed to coalesce into a “standard model”, experiments in semi-ecological conditions are revealing new implications of disorder and self-organization, requiring novel analyses of neural computation.
Date:
13 February 2025, 15:00
Venue:
New Radcliffe House, Walton Street OX2 6NW
Venue Details:
Seminar rooms, 2nd floor - lift available
Speaker:
Professor Alessandro Treves (The International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA, Italy))
Organising department:
Department of Experimental Psychology
Organisers:
Dr Fei-Yang Huang (University of Oxford),
Dr Sophia Shatek (University of Oxford),
Dr Ali Mahmoodi (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address:
beacon-seminar@psy.ox.ac.uk
Host:
Professor Fabian Grabenhorst (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford)
Part of:
Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editor:
Anne-Marie Honeyman-Tafa
