Mapping Memory Traces in the Fly Brain |
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| Air date: | Wednesday, September 28, 2005, 3:00:00 PM |
| Category: | Wednesday Afternoon Lectures |
| Description: | Determining where associative memories are stored in the brain has been an area of active investigation for nearly a century. Karl Lashley's early conclusions, that memories are not localized, but instead are dispersed in the brain, are slowly yielding to modern approaches that have begun to show where certain types of memory reside. Memory has been studied in a variety of animal preparations, but some of the most detailed information on the spatial and temporal characteristics of learning come from research in the fruitfly, Drosophila melanogaster.
For more information, visit http://www.zv.uni-wuerzburg.de/forschungsbericht/FOBE-akt/LS-70003010b/07030000-E.htm The NIH Director's Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series includes weekly scientific talks by some of the top researchers in the biomedical sciences worldwide. |
| Author: | Martin Heisenberg, Ph.D., University of Würzburg, Germany |
| Runtime: | 60 minutes |
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| CIT File ID: | 12795 |
| CIT Live ID: | 4246 |
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