龍野正実先生 (University of Lethbridge・Professor)
日時: 10月7日(土曜) 8:50-12:20
場所: @51号館8階05室
Language: English
Extracellular recording of single neurons has been one of the key techniques to investigate neural activity in freely behaving animals for more than 60 years. Improvement of recording technology including electrode profiles, configurations, and driving mechanisms has led to the significant increase of the number of simultaneously recorded neurons, yielding important findings in neuroscience. In this lecture, we will review the basic physics of extracellular electrophysiology, the types of signals that can be recorded by extracellular electrodes, and the technical developments of extracellular electrophysiology in freely behaving animals. The lecture will also cover essential concepts in sleep and memory as well as computational methods for the analysis of electrophysiological data. We will showcase a research example of detection of memory reactivation together with neural networks modeling of memory function.