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SUMMARY:Re-contextualizing the hippocampus - Dr Charan Ranganath\,Leverhul
 me Visiting Professor\, Dept. of Psychology &amp\; Visiting Fellow of Clar
 e Hall\, University of Cambridge\, UK Professor\, Department of Psychology
  and Center for Neuroscience\, University of California at Davis\, USA
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CONTACT:Louise White
DESCRIPTION:The hippocampus is one of the most extensively studied areas o
 f the brain\, and it is at the center of numerous theories of the neural b
 asis of human memory\, but its role in memory is highly controversial. I w
 ill present data from functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies
 \, along with preliminary intracranial EEG evidence suggesting that\, rath
 er than coding for all attributes of memories\, the hippocampus more speci
 fically encodes the temporal context of an event. Additionally\, I will pr
 esent evidence for the idea that different hippocampal subregions interact
  with two functionally and anatomically dissociable cortical systems that 
 extend beyond the medial temporal lobes. The results are inconsistent with
  the idea that the hippocampus is at the apex of a specialized memory syst
 em\, and more consistent with the idea that the hippocampal context repres
 entations modulate activity in distinct systems that guide different aspec
 ts of behavior.\n\nBiography: \nDr. Ranganath received his B.A. in Psychol
 ogy at UC Berkeley in 1993 and a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at Northwest
 ern University in 1999. After doing postdoctoral research at the Universit
 y of Pennsylvania and UC Berkeley\, he joined UC Davis in 2002\, where he 
 is now a Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology. Dr. Ranganath studies t
 he neural basis of human memory in healthy individuals and in patients wit
 h memory disorders\, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) an
 d electroencephalography (EEG) techniques. Dr. Ranganath has received the 
 Samuel Sutton Award for Distinguished Early Contributions to ERP research\
 , the Young Investigator Award from the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. In
  2013\, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Parke-Davis Fellowshi
 p from the University of Cambridge. \n\nWeb: http://dml.ucdavis.edu\nFaceb
 ook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Charan-Ranganaths-Dynamic-Memory-Lab/1
 22283067858063\nTwitter: @CharanRanganath\n
LOCATION:Ground Floor Lecture Theatre\, Department of Psychology
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