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DESCRIPTION:A Special Hebb Lecture was delivered by Prof. John O’Keefe\, co
 -winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Medicine on Monday June 1st\, at 10:00a
 m\, in MCMED 504  (McIntyre Medical Building\, 3655 Promenade Sir William 
 Osler).\nProf. O’Keefe earned both his Masters and Ph.D. degrees from McGi
 ll University in the Department of Psychology supervised by Prof. Ron. Mel
 zack. He then moved to University College London where he is currently Dir
 ector of the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour\,
  and Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience. He is known for his research abo
 ut how space is encoded in the hippocampus\;  using a  combination of beha
 vioural and electrophysiological methods\, Prof. O’Keefe discovered place 
 cells which show a specific kind of temporal coding that enable an animal 
 to recognize and spatially navigate its surroundings.\nProfessor O’Keefe i
 s the recipient of numerous prizes and awards including the Gruber Prize a
 nd the Kavli prize in Neuroscience\, and is Fellow of the Royal Society an
 d the Academy of Medical Sciences\, UK.\nMain Lecture at 10:00am\, MCMED 5
 04\n\nThe hippocampus as a cognitive map: How we got here and where we are
  going\nAbstract\n	Locating ourselves in familiar environments\, navigating
  flexibly around those environments\, and remembering where important obje
 cts can be found in them represent some of the most fundamental cognitive 
 tasks that the brain performs. Remarkably there is a dedicated set of brai
 n cells located in the hippocampal formation at the centre of a cognitive 
 mapping network which performs these computations. In the first part of my
  talk\, I will describe the place\, direction\, grid and boundary cells in
  the hippocampal formation which taken together comprise the cognitive map
 . I will emphasise the idea that a place cell can be constructed in two in
 dependent ways\, one relying on current sensory information derived from t
 he environment carried by the boundary cells and the other a path integrat
 ion system which uses information from the direction and grid cells derive
 d from the animal’s own movements. In addition to providing inputs for the
  construction of place representations\, the grid cells appear to be good 
 candidates to provide the distance metric for the map. In the second part 
 of my talk\, I will review recent evidence from our laboratory suggesting 
 firstly that the grid cells are a subset of a more extensive group of spat
 ially periodic EC cells which might also be used to construct place cells 
 and secondly that the grid cell system might not be able to provide the me
 tric for the cognitive map in all environments and under all circumstances
 .\n
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LOCATION:Lecture Hall 504\, McIntyre Medical Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\
 , H3G 1Y6\, 3655 promenade Sir William Osler
SUMMARY:Dr John O'Keefe delivers a Hebb lecture
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