Experience as Memories

The Neurobiology of Cognition Laboratory

We study how brains store experiences as memories, and how the expression of knowledge activates information that is relevant without activating what is irrelevant. Our laboratory uses molecular, electrophysiological, behavioral, engineering, and theoretical methods to investigate these fundamental and interrelated issues in neuroscience.

 

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Beyond memory, learning to learn
Beyond memory, learning to learn

There are countless studies of the neurobiology of memory, how neurons store the information gained from experience so it can be recalled. But as any educator knows, merely recollecting the information we learn in school is hardly the point of an education.

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Dentate Spikes Control: Dino’s Latest
Dentate Spikes Control: Dino’s Latest

Dino explores dentate spikes and external control of hippocampal function.

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“Whatever a monk keeps pursuing with [their] thinking and pondering, that becomes the inclination of [their] awareness.”

– Translation from the Dvedhavitakka Sutta: Two Sorts of Thinking, Siddhartha Gautama