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Remapping My Spaces

December 03, 2025

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EST

How do we learn and know? For much of the speaker’s career, it was assumed that neurons respond to external stimuli as if to represent them, but an equally plausible model asserts that neuronal activity is fundamentally internally organized and instead fit to external features. The speaker will report on investigations of cognition through studies of spatially tuned cells and synaptic plasticity. Like neuronal networks remap their representations of explored spaces, he has learned to reassess and reframe circumstances and concepts while navigating science and his career.

This session’s speaker will be André A. Fenton, PhD, and will be moderated by Michal Ramot, PhD, 2025 Program Committee member.

This was selected as a part of the Neuroscience 2025 programming: Theme I – Cognition.

Speakers

André Fenton, PhD

André A. Fenton, PhD, is professor and chair of neural science at New York University. He obtained a BSc in biology at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, and a PhD in behavioral and neural science at SUNY, Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. He led a neurophysiology group in the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in Prague before returning to work in the United States. His laboratory investigates molecular, neural, behavioral, and computational aspects of memory. Fenton’s activities outside of the lab include commercializing wireless EEG for emergency medicine, and harnessing innovations in microelectronics and digital trust solutions for low-resource communities.

Michal Ramot, PhD

Michal Ramot, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Brain Sciences at the Weizmann Institute of Science. Her research focuses on understanding how different large-scale neural networks in the human brain, which integrate various cognitive domains, give rise to complex behaviors. In particular, she is interested in how we might begin to deconstruct complex behaviors to better understand the underlying neural substrates. She earned her BS in mathematics and her PhD in computational neuroscience, both from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and completed postdoctoral training at NIH.

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Remapping My Spaces

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