CNI Seminar: Dori Derdikman

Dori Derdikman
Spatial Perception and Memory lab
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

On places and borders in the brain

While various forms of cells have been found in relation to the hippocampus cognitive map and navigation system, how these cells are formed and what is read from them is still a mystery. In the current lecture I will talk about two projects which tackle these issues. First, I will show how the formation of border cells in the cognitive map is related to a coordinate transformation, second I will discuss the interaction between the reward system (VTA) and the hippocampus.