Thursday, September 30, 2010
Paul E. Gold (Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) discusses the idea of studying memory loss to study the process of memory formation and his studies of forgetting in aging populations.
Duration: 37 minutes
Discussants:(in alphabetical order)
Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA)
Brian Derrick (Asst Prof, UTSA)
Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA)
acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Ranier Gutierrez (Assistant Professor, CINVESTAV, Mexico) talks about oscillations in the distributed network that regulates feeding behaviors, its entrainment by licking, and the significance of his finding that the responses of nucleus accumbens signal meal-related activity.
Duration: 37 minutes
Discussants:(in alphabetical order)
Salma Quraishi (Res...
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Peter Narins (Professor, UCLA) talks about being a member of the founding generation of neuroethologists in the 1970s, and of his pivotal work describing both ultrasonic and subsonic communication in two very different species.
Duration: 44 minutes
Discussants:(in alphabetical order)
Salma Quraishi (Res...
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Bill Spain (Professor, University of Washington) talks about spike frequency adaptation in the avian auditory system and cortex, and considers the utility of adaptation for integrators vs coincidence detectors across various timescales. In addition Bill talks about dividing his time as a clinician, and how his clinical vantage point impacts his take on basic science research...