Our identities as humans depend on our ability to remember the past. How these memories are constructed and represented in the brain, and how these same mechanisms allow us to understand the structure of knowledge beyond our immediate experiences, remains incompletely understood. Zhenrui Liao will present highlights from his PhD work on the neural circuits of memory in the hippocampus, particularly techniques he developed to study the learning of more “human-like” knowledge spaces in rodents. | 
