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SUMMARY:Animal models of episodic memory - Professor Jonathon D. Crystal\,
  Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences\, Indiana University
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CONTACT:Louise White
DESCRIPTION:People retrieve episodic memories about specific earlier event
 s that happened to them. Accordingly\, researchers have sought to evaluate
  the hypothesis that nonhumans retrieve episodic memories. The central hyp
 othesis of an animal model of episodic memory is that\, at the moment of a
  memory assessment\, the animal retrieves a memory of a specific earlier e
 vent. We tested this hypothesis by ruling out non-episodic memory hypothes
 es. We developed a range of approaches\, so that we have working models to
  evaluate elements of episodic memory in animals. These approaches include
 : what-where-when memory (Zhou & Crystal 2009\, PNAS)\; source memory (Cry
 stal\, Alford\, Zhou\, & Hohmann 2013\, Current Biology)\; binding of epis
 odic memories (Crystal & Smith 2014\, Current Biology)\; multiple item-in-
 context memories (Panoz-Brown et al.\, 2016\, Current Biology)\; replay of
  episodic memories (Panoz-Brown et al.\, 2018\, Current Biology)\; and ans
 wering unexpected questions after incidental encoding (Zhou\, Hohmann\, & 
 Crystal 2012\, Current Biology). In each approach\, evidence for episodic 
 memory comes from studies in which judgments of familiarity cannot produce
  accurate choices in memory assessments. These approaches may be used to e
 xplore the evolution of memory. \n\nBiography\n\nJonathon Crystal is a Pro
 fessor of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Indiana University\, where he 
 is also a faculty member in the Cognitive Science Program\, Program in Neu
 roscience\, and Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior. He is
  Editor-in-Chief of Learning & Behavior. He previously served as Director 
 of the Program in Neuroscience at Indiana\, and he was a Professor of Psyc
 hology at University of Georgia and an Assistant Professor at College of W
 illiam & Mary. He received PhD (1997) and Master of Science (1994) degrees
  from Brown University\, in the laboratory of Russ Church. He received a B
 achelor of Science (1992) from the University of Toronto\, where he worked
  in the laboratories of Sara Shettleworth and Ken Cheng. The objective of 
 work in the Crystal laboratory is to develop animal models of memory\, foc
 using on the types of memory that are impaired in human diseases. His lab 
 has developed a number of techniques for evaluating cognition in rats\, in
 cluding: replay of episodic memories\, binding of episodic memories\, pros
 pective memory\, what-where-when memory\, source memory\, metacognition\, 
 and retrieval practice. These approaches can be used in animal models of h
 uman diseases of memory\, such as Alzheimer's disease\, and may be used to
  explore the evolution of memory. Crystal is a Fellow of American Psycholo
 gical Association\, Association for Psychological Science\, Psychonomic So
 ciety\, and Eastern Psychological Association\n\n
LOCATION:Ground Floor Lecture Theatre\, Department of Psychology
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