How do we know where we are, where we have been and where we are going? Such are the questions that the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim aims to answer.
The Institute seeks to unlock the secrets of memory by studying the neural microcircuits and networks in the hippocampus and associated areas of the brain, where memory is encoded, stored and retrieved. It focuses in particular on the memory of place and direction that underlies our spatial navigation skills.
Web Information
Kavli ISN website: http://www.ntnu.edu/web/kavli/home
NTNU website: https://www.ntnu.edu/
About Kavli ISN
From Kavli Foundation web page
Founded in August 2007, Kavli at NTNU is able to draw on groundbreaking research that is well under way at its host institution, NTNU. It is closely affiliated with the university’s Centre for the Biology of Memory (CBM), where scientists in 2005 discovered “grid cells” — neurons in the entorhinal cortex that fire in patterns related to an animal’s specific location. The network of these brain cells may make up the neurological “map” that enables us to remember locations and that guides us through our surroundings.
The ultimate goal of the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience is to improve ...
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