Single-neuron correlates of perception and memory in the human medial temporal lobe

The human medial temporal lobe contains neurons that respond to the semantic contents of a presented stimulus. These « concept cells » may respond to very different pictures of a given person and even to their written or spoken name. Their response latency is far longer than necessary for object recognition, and they are found in brain regions that are crucial for declarative memory formation. It has thus been hypothesized that they may represent the semantic « building blocks » of episodic memories.

In this talk I will present data from single unit recordings in the hippocampus, entorhinal cortex, parahippocampal cortex, and amygdala during paradigms involving perception as well as encoding and consolidation of episodic memories in order to characterize the role of concept cells in these cognitive functions.

Lichtenberg Professor of Cognitive & Clinical Neurophysiology – Department of Epileptology

University of Bonn ‐ Germany

E-mail : florian.mormann@ukb.uni-bonn.de

Monday, 12th March 2018 – 11 a.m

Inmed Conference Room

Invited by Rosa COSSART