Michael Yartsev, 2025 Richard Lounsbery Award recipient, will present the 2026 Lounsbery Lecture on “Neural Mechanisms of Natural Spatial Behavior in Freely Flying Bats” at the California Institute of Technology on December 8 at 7:00 p.m. ET / 4:00 p.m. PT. In this talk, Yartsev will focus on the neural representation in the hippocampus of flying bats across space and time. He will discuss findings addressing how the hippocampus represents spatial information during aerial navigation on both short (milliseconds/seconds) and long (days/weeks) timescales and from single neurons to ensemble dynamics. This lecture is open to the public and will be webcast live.

Event Date
December 8, 2026 / 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

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