Tag: hippocampus
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Elisa Pavarino receives Bowdoin Prize
feb 2, 2026 Congratulations to Elisa Pavarino on being awarded the Bowdoin Prize! The Bowdoin Prize is one of Harvard’s oldest and most distinguished prizes. Past winners include Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Updike, Robert Brooks, and Joe Roman, among many others. Read more
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Jie Zheng is named Rising Star of Neuroscience
nov 15, 2025 Congratulations to Jie Zheng, named Rising star of Neuroscience Jie Zheng was a postdoctoral scholar in the Kreiman lab and is now a Professor at UC Davis. She was distinguished as one of the rising stars in Neuroscience in 2025 for her outstanding achievements. The announcement highlights scholars who stand to shape Read more
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Learning Fast and Slow
May 23, 2025 Neurons in the human brain encode rapidly learned visual information to reshape perception Prof. Kreiman gave a lecture at the Harvard Center for Brain Science during the annual retreat comparing the speed of learning in AI and humans. The lecture introduced the work of postdoc Marcelo Armendariz investigating the neuronal mechanisms underlying Read more
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Mechanisms of few shot learning in the human brain
16 May 2025 How neurons in the human medial temporal lobe process Mooney images Marcelo Armentariz presented his work studying how neural circuits in the human brain can learn about visual objects in a few-shot fashion at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. Remarkably, neurons rapidly change their response pattern upon learning to Read more
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How do neurons encode the order of events?
jan 29, 2025 Prefrontal and medial temporal neurons encode ordinal information of event sequences in humans Elisa Pavarino will be presenting her work jointly with Jie Zheng and Ueli Rurishauser. Read more
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Jie Zheng presents her work in a nanosymposium at SFN
october 5, 2024 Prefrontal and medial temporal neurons encode ordinal information of event seuences in humans Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting. Nanosymposium NANO06.11. 3:30PM – 3:45PM Read more