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SUMMARY:Memory Consolidation: Synaptic tagging and mental schemas - Profes
 sor Richard Morris\, University of Edinburgh
DTSTART:20111007T153000Z
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CONTACT:Nichola Daily
DESCRIPTION:*Abstract*: This talk updates a theoretical approach whose aim
  is to translate neuropsychological ideas about the psychological and anat
 omical organization of memory into the neurobiological domain. It is sugge
 sted that episodic-like memory consists of both automatic and controlled c
 omponents\, with the medial temporal mediation of memory encoding includin
 g neurobiological mechanisms that are automatic or incidental. These ideas
 \, in the cognitive and behavioural domain\, are linked to neurophysiologi
 cal ideas about cellular consolidation concerning synaptic potentiation. \
 nIdeas from psychology about mental schemas are considered in relation to 
 the phenomenon of systems consolidation and how prior knowledge can alter 
 the rate at which consolidation occurs. The possible implications of some 
 of these ideas for education will be touched on at the end.\n\n*Biography*
 : Richard Morris is Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Edinbur
 gh and an Adjunct Professor of the Norwegian Technical University in Trond
 heim (NTNO). He graduated in Natural Sciences at Cambridge in 1969 and com
 pleted a D.Phil at Sussex. In the 1970s he left academia to help build the
  Human Biology exhibition at the Natural History Museum in London and work
 ed for the Science & Features Dept. of BBC Television. Following this he t
 ook up a Lectureship at St Andrews\, and then later moved to Edinburgh.  D
 uring his career\, he has been seconded to work on a number of activities\
 , including the Government's Foresight Office and latterly to serve as Hea
 d of Neuroscience at the Wellcome Trust\, 2007-2010.  He has been active i
 n public awareness of science activities throughout his career.\n
LOCATION:Ground Floor Lecture Theatre\, Department of Experimental Psychol
 ogy
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