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Michael Hasselmo, a College of Arts & Sciences professor of psychological and brain sciences, explains how grid cells could explain how the brain makes sense of the environment and why those with Alzheimer's become disoriented and confused.
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Part one of a two-part series of interviews with CAS professor Michael Hasselmo, Associate Director of BU's Center for Memory and Brain. In these videos, Hasselmo discusses the function of "grid cells" and how they relates to spatial memory in the [...]brains of rats, and then compares his lab's findings with Israeli researchers doing similar studies with bats.
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Part two of a two-part series of interviews with CAS professor Michael Hasselmo, Associate Director of BU's Center for Memory and Brain. In these videos, Hasselmo discusses the function of "grid cells" and how they relates to spatial memory in the [...]brains of rats, and then compares his lab's findings with Israeli researchers doing similar studies with bats.
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