Editorial overview: Memory in time and space

TY - JOUR

T1 - Editorial overview

T2 - Memory in time and space

AU - Davachi, Lila

AU - Burgess, Neil

N1 - Funding Information: Nothing declared. Lila Davachi is currently Professor of Psychology at Columbia University. She received her B.A. in Psychology from Barnard College and received her Ph.D. in Neurobiology with the late Patricia Goldman-Rakic at Yale University where she conducted early glucose metabolism studies of the medial temporal lobe in non-human primates. She moved on to study human memory with Anthony Wagner at MIT, where she found, for the first time in humans that the hippocampus and perirhinal cortex make qualitatively distinctive contributions to episodic memory. She began her research lab at New York University in 2004 where her work has focused on elucidating new aspects of human memory behavior as well as harnessing different forms of brain imaging to elucidate the underlying neural mechanisms. Her work has identified novel signatures of human memory, including that local hippocampal activity patterns and hippocampal-cortical connectivity persist into post-encoding time periods and support memory reactivation and strengthening. Her work has also been instrumental in highlighting how sequential representations become ‘carved up’ to form distinct mnemonic episodes. She was recognized early in her career with the prestigious Young Investigator Award from the Cognitive Neuroscience Society and has recently moved to Columbia University. Neil Burgess is Director of the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at University College London (UCL). Neil studied Maths and Physics at UCL and Theoretical Physics at Manchester, where he began modelling working memory with Graham Hitch. He returned to UCL to work with John O’Keefe, creating models and experiments concerning how neurons represent space and support memory. With colleagues Tom Hartley and Colin Lever he both predicted and discovered neurons representing environmental boundaries. With Sue Becker in 2001 he proposed the first model explaining how neurons in the hippocampal system support coherent spatial imagery. Neil is a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow, a Fellow of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences and of the Royal Society.

PY - 2017/10

Y1 - 2017/10

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U2 - 10.1016/j.cobeha.2017.10.009

DO - 10.1016/j.cobeha.2017.10.009

M3 - Editorial

AN - SCOPUS:85032481950

SN - 2352-1546

VL - 17

SP - iv-vii

JO - Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences

JF - Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences

ER -