Speaker
Prof.
Alessandro Treves
(SISSA)
Description
I will contrast the spatial and memory narratives that have
dominated these last few decades of hippocampal research, leading to the
somersault caused by the discovery of grid cells. Besides yielding a Nobel
prize for Edvard and May-Brit Moser, grid cells have paradoxically refocused
attention on the dentate gyrus, as one of two key innovations introduced
in the mammalian nervous system some 250 million years ago.
Primary author
Prof.
Alessandro Treves
(SISSA)
