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Buffalo, Elizabeth A. |
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University of Washington School of Medicine |
| Primary Field
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Systems Neuroscience |
| Secondary Field
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Psychological and Cognitive Sciences |
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Beth Buffalo's research is focused on contributing to a better understanding of the neuronal mechanisms involved in the establishment and maintenance of memory. Towards this goal, her laboratory has used large-scale neurophysiological recordings and naturalistic behavioral tasks in nonhuman primates to examine the role of neural circuits and dynamics in memory and cognition. Using tasks of free-viewing, they identified neural signals in the macaque hippocampus and entorhinal cortex that were modulated by eye movements, and the strength of this modulation was related to the strength of memory formation. Using behavioral tasks in virtual reality, their work has demonstrated sequential activity among populations of neurons in the macaque hippocampus that reflect the progression of experience through salient task events. While hippocampal neurons have been most often studied relative to their spatial correlates, Buffalo's research has demonstrated that these neurons respond in a variety of tasks without an explicit spatial component. |
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