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Mapping Memory
"Mapping memory: the brains behind remembering" is the title of the Rosalind Franklin Prize Lecture by Professor Eleanor A. Maguire, Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College London.
She talks about recent advances in brain imaging technology that now offer the prospect of decoding memories from neural activity in the hippocampus of humans in vivo. Furthermore, in the last number of years it has become apparent that the hippocampus does not act alone in supporting memory. Using brain imaging it has been possible to delineate a distributed network of brain regions involved in supporting memories of our personal experiences.
royalsociety.org/event.asp?id=7952&month=11,2008
The event takes place in Royal Society on November 25. To get your acquainted with the topic, we suggest a podcast with another great memory researcher Eric Kandel: media.libsyn.com/media/brainsciencepodcast/BS-Episode3.mp3
Mapping Memory
"Mapping memory: the brains behind remembering" is the title of the Rosalind Franklin Prize Lecture by Professor Eleanor A. Maguire, Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College London.
She talks about recent advances in brain imaging technology that now offer the prospect of decoding memories from neural activity in the hippocampus of humans in vivo. Furthermore, in the last number of years it has become apparent that the hippocampus does not act alone in supporting memory. Using brain imaging it has been possible to delineate a distributed network of brain regions involved in supporting memories of our personal experiences.
royalsociety.org/event.asp?id=7952&month=11,2008
The event takes place in Royal Society on November 25. To get your acquainted with the topic, we suggest a podcast with another great memory researcher Eric Kandel: media.libsyn.com/media/brainsciencepodcast/BS-Episode3.mp3