Neuroscience of navigation

Block6

It’s already the last block of our first year in business! You can see the schedule below. We will update it with the talks title and the abstracts.

As usual, talks will be streamed on Crowdcast


3rd of November, 5pm CET

Erik Hermansen: “Space wrapped onto a grid cell torus” - Dunn lab, NTNU. Abstract | Replay

Sarthak Chandra: “Self-organized formation of discrete grid cell modules from smooth gradients” - Fiete lab, MIT. Abstract | Replay


17th of November, 5pm CET

Salman Qasim: “Phase precession in the human hippocampus and entorhinal cortex” - Gu lab, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Abstract | Replay

Jacob Bellmund: “Deforming the metric of cognitive maps distorts memory” - Doeller lab, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences. Abstract | POSTPONED.


1st of December, 5pm CET

Hannah Payne: Neural representations of space in the hippocampus of a food-caching bird - Aronov lab, Columbia University’s Zuckerman Institute. Abstract | Replay

Nick Robinson: “Targeted Activation of Hippocampal Place Cells Drives Memory-Guided Spatial Behaviour” - Häusser lab, University College London. Abstract | Replay


8th of December, 5pm CET

Philip Shamash: “Mice identify subgoals locations through an action-driven mapping process” - Branco lab, University College London. Abstract | Replay

Anna Gillespie: “Hippocampal replay reflects specific past experiences rather than a plan for subsequent choice” - Frank lab, UC San Francisco. Abstract | Replay


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