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Michael E. Hasselmo

Michael E. Hasselmo

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Neuroscience

D-Index
101
Citations
38425
World Ranking
734
National Ranking
412

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Michael E. Hasselmo is a researcher affiliated with Boston University in the United States. The primary area of their research is Neuroscience, with a focus on Cognitive Neuroscience and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Their work also intersects with fields such as Artificial Intelligence, Cell Biology, and Neurology.

The scientist's main research topics encompass Memory and Neural Mechanisms, Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, Neural Dynamics and Brain Function, Sleep and Wakefulness Research, Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications, Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms, and Neuroscience and Music Perception.

Recent publications by Michael E. Hasselmo include:

  • "Egocentric boundary vector tuning of the retrosplenial cortex" (2020, Science Advances)
  • "The brain in motion: How ensemble fluidity drives memory-updating and flexibility" (2020, eLife)
  • "Trajectory-modulated hippocampal neurons persist throughout memory-guided navigation" (2020, Nature Communications)
  • "Gated transformations from egocentric to allocentric reference frames involving retrosplenial cortex, entorhinal cortex, and hippocampus" (2023, Hippocampus)
  • "Navigating Through Time: A Spatial Navigation Perspective on How the Brain May Encode Time" (2020, Annual Review of Neuroscience)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Michael E. Hasselmo include Andrew S. Alexander, Patrick A. LaChance, Jennifer C. Robinson, G. William Chapman, and Lucas C. Carstensen.

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Hippocampus, Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, Cell Reports, and arXiv (Cornell University).

Michael E. Hasselmo has been recognized by the scientific community with fellowships, including Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2018 and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2011.

Best Publications

  • The role of acetylcholine in learning and memory.

    Michael E Hasselmo

  • Neuromodulation: acetylcholine and memory consolidation.

    Michael E. Hasselmo

  • A proposed function for Hippocampal theta rhythm: separate phases of encoding and retrieval enhance reversal of prior learning

    Michael E. Hasselmo;Clara Bodelón;Bradley P. Wyble

  • Graded persistent activity in entorhinal cortex neurons

    Alexei V. Egorov;Bassam N. Hamam;Erik Fransén;Michael E. Hasselmo

  • The role of expression and identity in the face-selective responses of neurons in the temporal visual cortex of the monkey

    Michael E. Hasselmo;Edmund T. Rolls;Gordon C. Baylis

  • Modes and models of forebrain cholinergic neuromodulation of cognition.

    Michael E Hasselmo;Martin Sarter

  • Unraveling the attentional functions of cortical cholinergic inputs: interactions between signal-driven and cognitive modulation of signal detection.

    Martin Sarter;Michael E. Hasselmo;John P. Bruno;Ben Givens

  • Gamma frequency-range abnormalities to auditory stimulation in schizophrenia

    Jun Soo Kwon;Jun Soo Kwon;Brian F. O'Donnell;Gene V. Wallenstein;Robert W. Greene

  • Neuromodulation and cortical function: modeling the physiological basis of behavior

    Michael E. Hasselmo

  • The hippocampus as an associator of discontiguous events

    Gene V. Wallenstein;Howard Eichenbaum;Michael E. Hasselmo

  • High acetylcholine levels set circuit dynamics for attention and encoding and low acetylcholine levels set dynamics for consolidation.

    Michael E. Hasselmo;Jill McGaughy

  • What is the function of hippocampal theta rhythm?—Linking behavioral data to phasic properties of field potential and unit recording data

    Michael E. Hasselmo

  • Dynamics of learning and recall at excitatory recurrent synapses and cholinergic modulation in rat hippocampal region CA3.

    Michael E. Hasselmo;Eric Schnell;Edi Barkai

  • Hippocampal “Time Cells”: Time versus Path Integration

    Benjamin J. Kraus;Robert J. Robinson;John A. White;Howard Eichenbaum

  • Laminar selectivity of the cholinergic suppression of synaptic transmission in rat hippocampal region CA1: computational modeling and brain slice physiology

    Michael E. Hasselmo;Eric Schnell

  • NMDA-dependent modulation of CA1 local circuit inhibition

    Heinz C R Grunze;Donald G. Rainnie;Michael E. Hasselmo;Eddie Barkai

  • Acetylcholine and memory

    Michael E. Hasselmo;James M. Bower

  • Stimulation in Hippocampal Region CA1 in Behaving Rats Yields Long-Term Potentiation when Delivered to the Peak of Theta and Long-Term Depression when Delivered to the Trough

    James M. Hyman;Bradley P. Wyble;Vikas Goyal;Christina A. Rossi

  • Reduction of Theta Rhythm Dissociates Grid Cell Spatial Periodicity from Directional Tuning

    Mark P. Brandon;Andrew R. Bogaard;Christopher P. Libby;Michael A. Connerney

  • Temporal Frequency of Subthreshold Oscillations Scales with Entorhinal Grid Cell Field Spacing

    Lisa M. Giocomo;Eric A. Zilli;Erik Fransén;Michael E. Hasselmo

Frequent Co-Authors

Chantal E. Stern
Chantal E. Stern Boston University
Lisa M. Giocomo
Lisa M. Giocomo Stanford University
Christiane Linster
Christiane Linster Cornell University
Marc W. Howard
Marc W. Howard Boston University
Howard Eichenbaum
Howard Eichenbaum Boston University
Angel Alonso
Angel Alonso Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
Edi Barkai
Edi Barkai University of Haifa
Vikaas S. Sohal
Vikaas S. Sohal University of California, San Francisco
Gordon C. Baylis
Gordon C. Baylis Western Kentucky University

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