Researcher May-Britt Moser has been selected as one of four Norwegian researchers to receive the 2010 ERC Advanced Grant. She will receive €2.5 million, which together with additional financial support from NTNU, will give the university’s Kavli Institute Systems Neuroscience additional funding of €620,000 per year for the next five years.
Moser’s grant will fund a broad research programme, ranging from the basic phenomenology of the transition between hippocampal representations, to the role of gamma-oscillations, thalamic activity and anatomy and development. Moser, who is co-director of the Kavli Institute, will use insights into memory separation processes to identify the principles responsible for ensemble representation at behavioural time scales.
She and her colleagues are currently developing a new method in the lab, where they will determine how environments and experiences are represented in the short-term time domain and how ensembles involved in one representation fade into those associated with another. These mechanisms will point the way to a better understanding of mechanisms responsible for retrieval of episodic memory.
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