March 3, 2025
8:30am – 6:00pm
Venue
NRB 132
2025 Southern California Learning and Memory (SCLM) Symposium
Monday, March 03, 2025
8:30 AM – 6:00 PM
Preliminary Program
In-Person Event
Neuroscience Research Building (NRB) 132 – Auditorium
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SESSION 1: Chair – Alicia Izquierdo, Ph.D.
Anne Churchland, Ph.D. (UCLA)
“Movements and Engagement in Decision-Making”
9:05 AM
Ahmet Arac, M.D. (UCLA)
“Computations Across Multiple Brain Regions Underlying Dexterous Movements”
9:30 AM
Cory Miller, Ph.D. (UC San Diego)
“Constructing Maps of Visual Space in Marmoset Hippocampus”
9:55 AM
SESSION 2: Chair – Laura DeNardo, Ph.D.
Gina Poe, Ph.D. (UCLA)
“Sleep Dynamics that Refresh Memory”
10:35 AM
Paul Mathews, Ph.D. (UCLA)
“Uncovering Brain Network Dynamics Involved in Behavioral Flexibility Using Functional Ultrasound Imaging(fUSI)”
11:00 AM
Jonathan Kao, Ph.D. (UCLA)
“A Cortical Information Bottleneck During Decision-Making”
11:25 AM
SESSION 3: Chair – Dean Buonomano, Ph.D.
Vijay Namboodiri, Ph.D. (UC SanFrancisco)
“Implications of Retrospective Causal Learning”
1:20 PM
Sean Ostlund, Ph.D. (UC Irvine)
“Corticostriatal Control Over Pavlovian Incentive Motivation”
1:45 PM
Dario Ringach, Ph.D. (UCLA)
“Dynamics of Energy-Efficient Coding in Primary Visual Cortex”
2:10 PM
SESSION 4: Chair – Barbara Knowlton, Ph.D.
Megan Peters, Ph.D. (UC Irvine)
“Quantitative Research Programs for the Study of Phenomenology”
2:50 PM
Christine Smith, Ph.D. (UC San Diego)
“Structural Neuroanatomy of Semantic Retrograde Memory in Older Adults”
3:15 PM
Ilana Bennett, Ph.D. (UC Riverside)
“Mnemonic Discrimination in the Aging Brain”
3:40 PM
SESSION 5: Chair – Carlos Portera-Cailliau, M.D., Ph.D.
Kay Tye, Ph.D. (The Salk Institute)
“Neural Mechanisms of Social Homeostasis”
4:20 PM
Brian Wiltgen, Ph.D. (UC Davis)
“Dopaminergic Regulation of Aversive Learning and Memory”
4:45 PM
Yi Zuo, Ph.D. (UC Santa Cruz)
“Insulo-Frontal Circuit in Cognitive Flexibility”
5:10 PM
For more information, please contact Dean Buonomano at dbuono@ucla.edu or the BRI Administrative Office at bri@mednet.ucla.edu.