iskelin@uci.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS
My research interests are focused on understanding the ‘lifetime’ of memories in the brain, from the initial encoding, throughout the consolidation process. What mechanisms are involved in the selection of memory aspects to be remembered, what drives the dynamics of bidirectional information transfer between the hippocampus and cortex, how is the transferred information encoded and decoded, how the new memories get incorporated into the existing schema and what is the neural implementation of the extraction of semantic from episodic memories? How the spectrum of lifetime experiences affects the connectivity matrix, representational capacity and state space of neuronal networks? To this end, I use the combination of lesion techniques, environmental enrichment procedures and high density single neuron and local field potential recordings from the hippocampus and cortical structures.
