The PROUST hypothesis: how the evolution of air breathing shaped hippocampal function
Abstract:
To make maps from air-borne odors requires dynamic respiratory patterns. I propose that this constraint explains the modulation of memory by nasal respiration in mammals, including murine rodents (e.g., laboratory mouse, laboratory rat) and humans. My prior theories of...
Tryon Lecture 2021: Professor Gül Dölen
Abstract: During specific periods of brain development, the nervous system exhibits heightened sensitivity to ethologically relevant stimuli, as well as increased malleability for synaptic, circuit, and behavioral modifications. These mechanistically constrained windows of time are called ...
Lecture Series - The Science of Happiness
<p>We all want to be happy, and there are countless ideas about what happiness is and how we can get some. But not many of those ideas are based on science. This presentation will share some of the most provocative and practical lessons from studies about the roots of a genuinely happy...
Russell De Valois Memorial Lecture with Dr. Marla Feller
Wiring Up Direction Selective Circuits in the Retina
The development of neural circuits is profoundly impacted by both spontaneous and sensory experience. This is perhaps most well studied in the visual system, where disruption of early spontaneous activity called retinal waves prior to...
Brain Science and Criminal Justice: Promise, Peril, and a Path Forward
How does neuroscience inform legal blame and responsibility? Does neurotechnology have a place in the courtroom? Mark your calendars for this Wednesday at 3pm PST to hear from an expert at the intersection of neuroscience and the law. Francis Shen, J.D., Ph.D., will be discussing the new science...
Dendritic Integration in Cortical and Hippocampal Neurons in Vivo
Between continuity and change: The analysis of family micro-transitions during parents and adolescents conversations
In this contribution I articulate a systemic-dynamic framework for the study of family change to illuminate the interactive and communicative processes occurring when families experience the transition through adolescence. The construct of micro-transitions, which is central to such a framework...
How do we understand and learn from other's actions? Integrating social learning and causal inference
From an early age, children are exquisitely sensitive social beings, and their causal learning takes place in a rich social context where the goal-directed actions of others lead to many of the causal outcomes children observe. A natural question is therefore how social interaction informs and...
Probing Visual Processing Outside of Awareness
Improving the CIE Color Rendering Index — how this can be done and why it matters
Colour rendering of light sources is a surprisingly subtle concept that many find difficult to fully understand. It is becoming increasingly important because of the unavoidable trade-off between the color rendering quality of light sources and their luminous efficacy — which has significant...