André A Fenton

New York University · company speakers →

How do we learn and know? For much of the speaker’s career, it was assumed that neurons respond to external stimuli as if to represent them, but an equally plausible model asserts that neuronal activity is fundamentally internally organized and instead fit to external features. The speaker will report on investigations of cognition through studies of spatially-tuned cells and synaptic plasticity. Like neuronal networks remap their representations of explored spaces, he has learned to reassess and reframe circumstances and concepts while navigating science and his career.

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