Neuroscience Program Seminars

View Full Calendar

"Memories in motion: using virtual reality to examine representational drift," by Jason R. Climer, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Event Type
Seminar/Symposium
Sponsor
Neuroscience Program
Location
Beckman Institute 1005
Date
Nov 5, 2024   4:00 pm  
Contact
Xinzhu Yu
E-Mail
xinzhuyu@illinois.edu
Views
46

Some findings suggest that representations of the world in the brain are not fixed, however, these results remain controversial. We used a multisensory virtual reality system to control for changes in behavior and sensory experience and found that hippocampal representations of space do indeed drift over time. These results have implications for our understanding of how memories are stored.

link for robots only