[CorTalk] Learning and adapting the structure of neural maps on behavioral timescales
Over the last several decades, the tractable response properties of parahippocampal neurons have provided a new access key to understanding the cognitive process of self-localization: the ability to know where you are currently located in space. Defined by functionally discrete response properties, neurons across multiple brain regions are proposed to provide the basis for an internal neural map of space, which enables animals to perform path-integration based spatial navigation and supports the formation of spatial memories. My lab focuses on understanding the mechanisms that generate this neural map of space and how this map is used to support behavior. In this talk, I’ll discuss how our internal neural maps of space adapt and exhibit plasticity in novel environments.
Date: 30 May 2025, 17:30
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Speakers: Speaker to be announced
Organising department: MRC Brain Network Dynamics Unit
Organiser: Sasha Tinelli (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address: sasha.tinelli@chch.ox.ac.uk
Host: Sasha Tinelli (University of Oxford)
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Public
Editor: Sasha Tinelli