Our next Cognition Workshop will take place this Thursday 5/24 from 3:30 – 5:00 PM in Harper 140. Refreshments and snacks will be served.
Our speaker will be Andrew Sheriff, a graduate student in the Kay Lab presenting:
Coherent neural and respiratory oscillations between sensory systems and the hippocampus
Abstract:
A recent proposal suggests that olfaction evolved primarily in the context of spatial navigation. The respiratory rhythm is tracked by olfactory bulb oscillations (2-12 Hz in rodents) and recently shown to be capable of widespread coordination of neural activity implicated in cognition. In this study, behavioral and electrophysiological methods were used with aims of 1: comparing spatial navigation and SLM in rodents across visual and olfactory modalities; and 2: assessing the roles of theta and respiratory oscillations in coordinating widespread neural activity during SLM and other related behaviors.
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