Tue, December 1, 2009
Location: 114-DA
Scale-invariant aspects of cardiac dynamics: observing physiologic states under health, disease, and aging
Plamen Ivanov
Physics Dept, Boston University
New insights into learning and memory. Gina Escobar and Tarec Fares, graduate students in the lab of Assistant Professor Armen Stepanyants, developed a method for calculating the capacity of neural circuits to undergo structural changes that enable the brain to learn and store memories. They showed that this capacity in primate neural circuits is several fold higher than that in rodents. This research was recently published in the 20 Aug 2008 issue of Journal of Neuroscience (vol. 28, p. 8477).
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