The hippocampus and memory: the right amount of disorder for the curious mind
Professor Alessandro Treves
Thursday, 13 February 2025, 3pm to 4pm
New Radcliffe House, 2nd floor seminar rooms
Hosted by Prof Fabian Grabenhorst
ABSTRACT:
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.