#29. Place Cells: How we know where we are - Prof. Kate Jeffery
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Chapters
0:00
Introductions
6:44
What are place cells and how do they work?
11:55
Place cells, the hippocampus and memory
20:41
Are place cells only found in the hippocampus?
24:59
Do the same processes work in imagining/visualizing where we are?
31:11
Where do these cells get their information of location from?
37:07
Current and future research
43:43
Wrap up
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#29. Place Cells: How we know where we are - Prof. Kate Jeffery
Nov 24, 2023
Season 2
Episode 29
Guest: Professor Kate jeffery
Professor Kate Jeffery, Head of School of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Glasgow. Discusses her work on our idea of place, space and navigation. We get an introduction to place cells which are the neurons in the brain which help us identify our location in space. We speak about how these were discovered how they work and where research on our understanding of place and direction is going.
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