Symposium: The Role of the Hippocampus in Learning and Memory: June 11, 1998: Richmond, VA

海马体在学习和记忆中的作用研讨会该项目的目的是向国际社会的行为神经科学家介绍一些杰出的美国神经科学家关于海马体在学习和记忆中的作用的新研究和理论观点。这个特别的卫星专题讨论会将在1998年国际行为神经科学学会会议上举行。这个独特的协会由来自29个不同国家的成员组成，每年在美国和其他国家轮流举行会议。该项目将重点研究海马体在学习和记忆中的作用。演讲者将集中讨论解决这个问题的各种方法，从研究海马体在特定形式的学习和记忆中的作用，如陈述性记忆、联想学习和空间记忆，到对海马体在学习和记忆中的多重贡献的理论解释。该项目不仅包括演讲者实验室的数据展示，而且还将突出演讲者的重要理论贡献，并允许跨理论方法整合海马功能。这种数据和理论的混合以及跨实验室的整合将向国际社会的神经科学家展示该领域的现状。参加IBNS会议的神经科学家来自神经科学的许多学科，包括心理学、药理学、分子和细胞生物学、行为学等，但他们都对行为感兴趣。向IBNS会员介绍这些理论和发现将有助于向会员介绍该领域最新的问题和理论，并鼓励在该领域进行更多的跨学科研究和跨国界合作。

LAY ABSTRACT IBN-9802692 Symposium on the role of the Hippocampus in Learning and Memory The objective of the project is to present new research and theoretical perspectives on the role of the hippocampus in learning and memory by a number of prominent American neuroscientists to the international community of behavioral neuroscientists. This special satellite symposium will take place at the 1998 meeting of the International Behavioral Neuroscience Society. This unique society is comprised of members from 29 different countries and meets on an annual basis alternating between the USA and other countries. The project will focus on the role of the hippocampus in learning and memory. The speakers will focus on a variety of approaches to this question ranging from an examination of the role in specific forms of learning and memory such as declarative memory, associative learning, and spatial memory to theoretical explanations of the multiple contributions of the hippocampus to learning and memory. The project will not simply involve presentation of data from the laboratories of the speakers, but in addition, will highlight important theoretical contributions from the speakers and allow integration across theoretical approaches to hippocampal function. This mix of data and theory and the integration across laboratories will present the current state of the field to the international community of neuroscientists. The neuroscientists who come to the IBNS meeting are from many disciplines within neuroscience, including psychology, pharmacology, molecular and cell biology, ethology, etc., yet all of them have an interest in behavior. Presenting these theories and findings to the IBNS membership will serve to educate the membership about the most current issues and theories in this field and encourage more research in the area with an interdisciplinary emphasis and collaboration across national boundaries.