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Spring 2018 CRAM meeting
22nd Meeting
March 23, 2018
Location: Boston University, Photonics Center, Room 206, 8 St. Mary Street, Boston MA 02215


8:15 AM - 5:30 PM Academic Retrospective
This event will be a day-long celebration of Howard Eichenbaum’s body of academic work and his lasting scientific legacy. Registration is free but required.

8:15 AM Introduction by Bradford Dickerson

8:30 AM Neal Cohen Beckman Institute, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL TITLE: Representations and mechanisms of declarative/relational memory: Howard Eichenbaum’s remarkable theoretical and experimental contributions.

8:55 AM Elizabeth Buffalo Department of Physiology & Biophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA TITLE: Maps of Cognition in the Primate Hippocampus.

9:20AM Matthew Shapiro Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, Mt Sinai Health Systems, NY, NY TITLE: Keeping memory on track: interactions between the prefrontal cortex and the hippocampus.

9:45 AM Geoff Schoenbaum NIDA-IRP, Triad Technology Center, Baltimore, MD TITLE: Relating orbitofrontal and hippocampal function.

10:10 AM break

10:30 AM Michael Hasselmo Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Boston University, Boston, MA TITLE: Memory and time at Boston University.

10:55 AM Emma Wood TITLE Splitting and lumping by hippocampal place cells: two sides of the same coin.

11:20 AM David Amaral UC Davis MIND Institute TITLE: An Update on the HM Project

11:45 AM Norbert Fortin Center for the Neurobiology of Learning & Memory, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA TITLE: Hippocampal neural mechanisms underlying the memory for sequences of events.

12:15 PM -1:30 PM Lunch Break

1:30 PM Rebecca Burwell Cognitive, Linguistic & Psychological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI TITLE: The neural circuitry of spatial context.

1:55 PM Joseph Manns Department of Psychology, Emory University TITLE: Remembering what’s important: brain mechanisms and mentorship.

2:20 PM Charan Ranganath Department of Psychology, UC-Davis, Davis, CA TITLE: Hippocampal and Cortical contributions to the temporal organization of human memory.

2:45 PM Marc Howard Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Boston University, Boston, MA TITLE: Jumping back in time: Retrieved temporal context.

3:10 PM Break

3:30 PM Samuel McKenzie NYU Neuroscience Institute, New York, NY TITLE: Howard’s 10-year vision: hierarchically organized neural representations across the limbic system.

3:55 PM Alison Preston Department of Psychology, University of Texas, Austin, TX TITLE: Interplay of the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex in memory.

4:25 PM Richard G.M. Morris Centre for Cognitive and Neural Systems, U of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland TITLE: Little doubt that my memory of Howard will be persistent; but what’s the brain mechanism?

5:30 – End

_______________________________ 6:00 PM Dedication of the Howard Eichenbaum Colloquium Room

Boston University, Kilachand Center, 610 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 101

RECEPTION TO FOLLOW

_______________________________ 7:00 PM JOIN US FOR DINNER AND REMINISCING

send Mail to Denise Parisi

Boston University, Photonics Building, 8 St. Mary's Street, 9th Floor, Boston, MA


Hosted by Boston University Center for Memory and Brain and Charles River Association for Memory.



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