When:
February 28, 2014 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
2014-02-28T19:00:00+00:00
2014-02-28T20:30:00+00:00
Where:
Faraday Lecture Theatre, Royal Institution
The Royal Institution of Great Britain
21 Albemarle Street, Westminster, London W1S 4BS
UK
The Royal Institution of Great Britain
21 Albemarle Street, Westminster, London W1S 4BS
UK
Cost:
£17
Contact:
020 7409 2992
Memory is distributed across many brain regions but critical among them is the hippocampus. Eleanor Maguire will draw on evidence from virtual reality, brain imaging and studies of amnesia to show that the consequences of hippocampal damage are even more far-reaching than suspected, robbing us of our past, our imagination and altering our perception of the world.