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Susumu Tonegawa

… Optogenetics Alzheimer's Disease Motivation and Behavior Reward Systems Oscillations hippocampus memory … in our understanding the brain mechanisms subserving its behavior and cognition. Currently Ongoing and Near-Future …

Brain circuit helps us learn by watching others

May 03, 2018
… necessary for observational learning. social memory social behavior amygdala cortex … which reveals how neurons change their firing rates as a behavior is learned. This analysis, performed by study author … that the ACC is necessary for more general types of social behavior, such as interacting with a nonthreatening juvenile …

Visual Recognition Memory

… storing and acting on simple forms of memory that affect behavior. The type of “visual recognition memory” his lab characterized is fundamental to human behavior. It helps us account for (and ignore) what we’ve … new visual patterns they will try to explore them but this behavior diminishes, or habituates, over days as a pattern …

Internal States of the Brain

… Symposia Motivation and Behavior Mood Disorders Sleep Public Event This conference … - 11:55am Mala Murthy, Princeton University Adjusting Behavior on the Fly: Internal States and Dynamic Social … Institute of Technology Hypothalamic control of social behavior and internal states 2:20 – 2:55pm Amita Sehgal, …

MIT Colloquium on Brain & Cognition with Matthew Chafee, PhD

… between prefrontal cortex and other cortical areas during behavior.  More recently, we have started to examine how … in working memory and utilize that information to direct behavior.  We found a remarkable similarity in the … interaction between neurons in these areas during behavior.  I did my postdoc in the lab of Apostolos …
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