The UA Integrative Systems Neuroscience seminar will welcome Jeffrey Johnson, an associate professor of psychological science at the University of Missouri, to speak about "Representing and strategizing about time during episodic memory retrieval." The seminar will take place 11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. on Thursday, April 7, in Old Main 329. 

Our personal, or episodic, memories are typically defined by the unique places and times at which they were experienced. Although research on episodic memory has traditionally centered on the spatial dimension, there is growing interest to further characterize how temporal information is represented in a neurocognitive sense. This talk will discuss research from human behavioral studies, electroencephalography (EEG) and computational modeling approaches aimed at understanding the role that time plays in episodic memory and how we might use the age of a memory to strategically focus our retrieval efforts.

Johnson received his B.A. in psychology/chemistry (dual major) from Case Western Reserve University and his Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from the University at Albany. He then went on to do post-doctoral training in the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory at the University of California-Irvine. He is currently an associate professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences and the Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Program at the University of Missouri. 

The seminar is open to the university. In addition, students who are interested in graduate programs in psychology and neuroscience at the University of Missouri are free to join us for an informal chat with Johnson 2-3 p.m. in Memorial Hall 203.