Hippocampus 2.0: Hebbian multisensory memory
This talk is part of the Cortex Club Welcome event and will be followed by a Cortex Club Welcome Social
Hippocampus is implicated in several major episodic learning and memory disorders and many therapies have worked in mice but they did not translate in humans. I hypothesize that a part of the reason is the way we probe learning and memory in rodents, using spatial navigation tasks. Related, place cells are found in rodents but not found in primates, despite extensive efforts. On the other hand, primate and rodent hippocampal neurons show a diversity of non-spatial responses. I will share a novel theory of the hippocampus that can reconcile these observations, and show supporting experimental evidence obtained using virtual reality. This would provide an effective technique to diagnose, translate and treat learning and memory disorders.
Date: 10 October 2022, 16:00
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Library
Speakers: Speaker to be announced
Organiser: Cortex Club (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address: cortex.club@studentclubs.ox.ac.uk
Host: Cortex Club (University of Oxford)
Part of: Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Members of the University only
Editor: Demi Brizee