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In a SWC Seminar, Professor Alison Barth shared her work exploring synaptic changes in the brain during association learning. In this Q&A, she touches on how she came to research the topic, her most surprising findings, methodology, and more.

In a recent seminar at SWC, Assistant Professor Dmitriy Aronov shared his research studying the relationship between hippocampal activity and episodic memory in the black-capped chickadee, a specialist food-caching bird that stores food items at concealed locations and uses memories to retrieve their caches later in time.

Dr Dileep George recently gave a seminar at SWC where he described how treating space as a sequence can resolve many of the phenomena that are ascribed to spatial remapping. In this Q&A, he shares more about the Clone-Structured Cognitive Graphs model and the implications for neuroscience and artificial intelligence.

How does the brain use the presence or absence of reward to influence its decision-making? Recent SWC Seminar speaker Professor Ilana Witten shared her research on the midbrain dopamine system, its role in reinforcement learning, and state-dependent decision-making in the striatum.

In a recent SWC Seminar, Dr Nuria Vendrell Llopis shared her work on neural reinforcement across brain regions and cell-types. In this Q&A, she expands on what motivated her to pursue this line of research, her key findings, and implications of these findings on how we learn.

Professor Loren Frank recently gave a seminar at SWC where he discussed how research from his lab is helping to understand the structure of representations of past, present, and potential future. In this Q&A, he shares more about his research on representations in the hippocampus and their coordination with activity elsewhere in the brain.