Dr. Albert Lee
Associate Professor of Neurology, HMS and BIDMC Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, Harvard University
PI: Prof. Arbora Resulaj
12 to 1 PM
IB 140 & Zoom
12 to 1 PM
IB 140 & Zoom
Title
Hippocampal representations and their uses
Abstract
The hippocampus is critical for recollecting and imagining experiences. This is believed to involve voluntarily drawing from hippocampal memory representations of people, events, and places, including maplike representations of familiar environments. We developed a brain–machine interface to investigate this high-level cognitive process in rodents. We have also studied the structure of hippocampal memory representations of space and the use of these representations during natural behavior in rats and mice. This work provides insight into episodic memory encoding and recall, mental simulation and planning, and imagination and opens up possibilities for high-level neural prosthetics that use hippocampal representations.