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SUMMARY:  New perspectives on old puzzles – memory and the brain - Profe
 ssor Eleanor A. Maguire\, Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at UCL
DTSTART:20160226T163000Z
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CONTACT:Louise White
DESCRIPTION: Abstract:\n\nMemory is undeniably central to cognition. And y
 et\, there is still a pervasive tendency to examine memory in isolation.  
 By considering why memory exists\, what it is for\, how and where memories
  are built and if and when they change over time\, I will argue that memor
 y can only be properly understood if considered in the context of cognitio
 n as a whole.  I will examine cognitive\, neuropsychological and brain ima
 ging data to explore this assertion.\n\nBiography:\n\nEleanor Maguire unde
 rtook her PhD at University College Dublin\, Ireland\, where she first bec
 ame interested in the neural basis of memory while working with patients a
 s a neuropsychologist.  She is currently a Wellcome Trust Principal Resear
 ch Fellow and Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the Wellcome Trust Ce
 ntre for Neuroimaging at University College London\, UK.  In addition\, sh
 e is an honorary neuropsychologist at the National Hospital for Neurology 
 and Neurosurgery\, Queen Square\, London. Eleanor heads the Memory and Spa
 ce research laboratory at the Centre\, where her team uses structural and 
 functional magnetic resonance imaging in conjunction with the neuropsychol
 ogical examination of patients in order to understand how memories are for
 med\, represented and recollected by the human brain. She has won numerous
  prizes for outstanding contributions to science including the Ig Nobel Pr
 ize for Medicine for her study of London taxi drivers\, the Royal Society 
 Rosalind Franklin Award\, and in 2011 she was elected a Fellow of the Acad
 emy of Medical Sciences.
LOCATION:Ground Floor Lecture Theatre\, Department of Psychology
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