Fellowship Lunchtime Lectures: Professor David Dupret
Event
Teddy Hall’s online lunchtime lecture series returns for Hilary Term 2021. It aims to highlight the incredible depth and breadth of research across the Teddy Hall Fellowship. Students, alumni, fellows and staff are welcome to register.
Speaker and Topic
‘Joining the Dots’ In Memory
What is memory for? It is certainly a record of past experience that defines who we are. But aren’t we defined by what we will do next? Many decisions in everyday life are not based on the information gathered from direct experience. Instead, we rely on inference, a process whereby unobserved but logical relationships are drawn from multiple events.
In this talk, David will present recent work leveraging from a parallel cross-species approach to investigate brain mechanisms underlying inferential reasoning in humans and mice. This work will reveal how the brain flexibly combines distinct memories to serve adaptive behaviour.
About the Speaker
Professor David Dupret is a Fellow by Special Election in Neuroscience and Professor of Neuroscience.
David’s research interests address the temporal dynamics of brain circuits in relation to behaviour. The primary aim of his research programme is to understand how neuronal activity in the hippocampal circuit contributes to the acquisition, consolidation and recall of memory traces.
Registration
You must register in order to receive the Zoom joining link the day before the lecture.
Please note that this lecture will be recorded and published on St Edmund Hall’s digital and print communication platforms where appropriate.