Laboratory for Behavioral Neurophysiology of Memory

Goals of research in our laboratory are to translate neurobiological and neurophysiological observations into cognitive and mental pheonomena. In particular, we want to elucidate how the brain learns a new event in the external world and retrieves the memory of the event effectively in order to produce adaptive behavior. Our main techniques are to train and test laboratory animals in various goal-directed memory tasks and to monitor electrophysiological activities of a large number of single units simultaneously as well as local field activities in neural networks.