~~~~~~~~ETAN
MARKUS~~~~~~~~
Department of
Psychology,
I'm an associate professor in the
Behavioral Neuroscience Division of the Psychology
Department at The University of Connecticut. My interests are in
understanding the mechanisms underlying learning and memory. Our research
focuses on how memories for events are formed. The brain structure we are
investigating is the hippocampus (Greek for seahorse), a region important for
the processing of episodic experiences (memory for objects and events within
the context in which they occurred). This region is also important for navigation,
for example the Alzheimer Association has a “safe
return” program to help find patients (who have a damaged
hippocampus) that get lost.
The distinctive aspect of my
research lies in combining behavioral methods with neurophysiology (parallel single unit recording). The
paradigm allows one to record the activity of many
cells in the hippocampus and related brain structures while the animal is freely walking around. By examining simultaneously the
activity of many cells, one can gain an understanding on how these cells work
together as a network, and how this region of the brain processes information.
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Jason Bachand and Etan Markus, Jan. 1998, last modified Dec. 2007