About the authors

Bruce L. McNaughton

Bruce L. McNaughton received his Ph.D. with Graham Goddard at the Department of Psychology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada, and undertook his postdoctoral training with Per Andersen at the Institute of Neurophysiology, University of Oslo, Norway, and with John O'Keefe at the Cerebral Functions Group, University College London, UK. His early work included the demonstration in 1978 that LTP involved a Hebbian mechanism, and that its expression is localized postsynaptically. Subsequent work has focused on the development and application of neural ensemble recording methods (tetrodes) to the problems of spatial orientation, memory trace reactivation and memory consolidation, and modelling studies on neural network dynamics underlying path integration. He is currently Chair of the Graduate Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience at the University of Arizona, and an elected member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters. For more information go to http://www.neuroscience.arizona.edu

Francesco P. Battaglia

Francesco P. Battaglia received his Ph.D. in computational neuroscience with Alessandro Treves at SISSA-ISAS, Trieste, Italy, analysing continuous attractor models of place-related hippocampal activity. For his postdoctoral work, he dedicated himself to experimental neurophysiology in the laboratory of Bruce McNaughton and then at the Laboratoire de Physiologie de la Perception et de l'Action, Collège de France, Paris, studying hippocampal place cells, the interactions between cortical and hippocampal activity during sleep, and prefrontal cortex ensemble dynamics. His current research interests include the study of the activity of the rat prefrontal cortex and hippocampus in relation to working memory and decision making and the interaction between brain oscillations and ensemble activity.

Ole Jensen

Ole Jensen started his research career theoretically exploring Turing structures in chemical systems. He then received his Ph.D. in neuroscience at Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, in 1998 with John Lisman, applying computational modelling to explore the role of oscillatory brain activity in memory processing. After his Ph.D. he moved to the Helsinki University of Technology, Finland, to work with whole-head magnetoencephalogy (MEG). Collaborating with Claudia Tesche and Riitta Hari he was in engaged in method development and memory research. In 2002 he was employed at the F.C. Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging as a principal investigator. His research group focuses on investigating the role of oscillatory brain activity in perception and memory using computational modelling and MEG.

Edvard I Moser

Edvard Moser received his Ph.D. in neuroscience at the University of Oslo, Norway, in 1995 with Per Andersen as his mentor. After brief postdoctoral training with Richard Morris at the University of Edinburgh and John O'Keefe at University College of London, he started his own laboratory with May-Britt Moser at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in 1996. He is now a professor in neuroscience and a Director of the Centre for the Biology of Memory, one of 13 Norwegian Centres of Excellence. Using a combination of theoretical and experimental approaches, and a diversity of anatomical, physiological, behavioural and mathematical methods, the Centre seeks to understand how information is encoded, stored and used in corticohippocampal systems and microcircuits. The Moser group discovered grid cells in the entorhinal cortex and worked out some of the mechanisms of pattern separation in the hippocampal circuit. For more information go to http://www.cbm.ntnu.no/

May-Britt Moser

May-Britt Moser received her Ph.D. in neuroscience at the University of Oslo, Norway, in 1995 with Per Andersen as her mentor. After brief postdoctoral training with Richard Morris at the University of Edinburgh and John O'Keefe at University College of London, she started her own laboratory with Edvard Moser at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in 1996. She is now a professor in neuroscience and a Director of the Centre for the Biology of Memory, one of 13 Norwegian Centres of Excellence. Using a combination of theoretical and experimental approaches, and a diversity of anatomical, physiological, behavioural and mathematical methods, the Centre seeks to understand how information is encoded, stored and used in corticohippocampal systems and microcircuits. The Moser group discovered grid cells in the entorhinal cortex and worked out some of the mechanisms of pattern separation in the hippocampal circuit. For more information go to http://www.cbm.ntnu.no/