The James L. McGaugh Distinguished Seminar will host guest speaker Dr. Katalin Gothard, Professor of Physiology, Neurology, and Neuroscience, from The University of Arizona “A context-dependent switch from sensing to feeling in the primate amygdala” Tactile signals elicited in the periphery by social and affective touch acquire emotional significance in the brain. As the amygdala…

The UC Irvine Department of Neurobiology and Behavior will host guest speaker Dr. James Antony, Assistant Professor at California Polytechnic State University. Making memories last: Factors that promote memory persistence How do memories persist? In this talk, I will investigate various factors that promote long-term memory. First, I will show how moment-to-moment predictions made during…

Shahrdad Lotfipour, PhD, and Michael A. Yassa, PhD will host a Lunch and Learn session about the new UC Irvine Behavioral Testing Core Facility. This session will introduce researchers to the capabilities of our new state-of-the-art facility with a range of equipment designed for rigorous and reproducible testing of rodent behavior. The facility is supported…