2025 Southern California Learning & Memory Symposium

2025 Southern California Learning & Memory Symposium

March 3, 2025

8:00am – 6:00pm

Session I:

Alicia Izquierdo, PhD (Chair)

Professor, Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences,

David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA (DGSoM at UCLA)

Movements And Engagement in Decision-Making

Anne Churchland, PhD

Professor, Neurobiology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Computations Across Multiple Brain Regions Underlying

Dexterous Moments

Ahmet Arac, PhD

Assistant Professor, Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Constructing Maps of Visual Space In Marmoset Hippocampus

Cory Miller, PhD

Professor, Psychology, University of California, San Diego

Session II:

Laura DeNardo, PhD (Chair)

Assistant Professor, Physiology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Sleep Dynamics That Refresh Memory

Gina Poe, PhD

Professor, Integrative Biology and Psychology, Psychiatry & Biobehavioral

Sciences, and Neurobiology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Uncovering Brain Network Dynamics Involved in Behavioral Flexibility

Using Functional Ultrasound Imaging (fUSI)

Paul Mathews, PhD

Associate Professor, Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

A Cortical Information Bottleneck During Decision-Making

Jonathan Kao, PhD

Associate Professor, Signals and Systems,

UCLA Samueli School of Engineering & Computer Science

Session III:

Dean Buonomano, PhD (Chair)

Professor and Vice Chair, Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, and Neurobiology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Implications of Retrospective Causal Learning

Vijay Namboordiri, PhD

Assistant Professor, Neurology, Institute for Neurosciences,

University of California, San Francisco

Corticostriatal Control Over Pavlovian Incentive Motivation

Sean Ostlund, PhD

Associate Professor, Anesthesiology,

University of California, Irvine School of Medicine

Dynamics of Energy-Efficient Coding in Primary Visual Cortex

Dario Ringach, PhD

Professor, Psychology and Neurobiology,

David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Session IV:

Barbara Knowlton, PhD (Chair)

Professor and Vice Chair, Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences and Undergraduate Studies, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Quantitative Research Programs for the Study of Phenomenology

Megan Peters, PhD

Associate Professor, Cognitive Sciences

University of California, Irvine School of Social Sciences

Structural Neuroanatomy of Semantic Retrograde Memory in Older Adults

Christine Peters, PhD

Scientist, Functional Genomics & In Vitro Models,

University of California, San Diego

Mnemonic Discrimination in the Aging Brain

Ilana Bennett, PhD

Associate Professor, Psychology, University of California, Riverside

Session V:

Carlos Portera-Cailliau, MD, PhD (Chair)

Professor, Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Neural Mechanisms of Social Homeostasis

Kay Tye, PhD

Professor, Systems Neurobiology Laboratory, The Salk Institute

Dopaminergic Regulation of Aversive Learning and Memory

Brian Wiltgen, PhD

Associate Professor, Psychology, University of California, Davis     – and –

Insulo-Frontal Circuit in Cognitive Flexibility

Yi Zuo, PhD

Professor, Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology,

University of California, Santa Cruz

Contact – Dean Buonomano – dbuono@ucla.edu