Howard Eichenbaum, PhD

University Professor

• PhD, University of Michigan
• Director:  Center for Memory & Brain
• Director:  Cognitive Neurobiology Laboratory
• Director:  Center for Neuroscience

Research Interests

The hippocampus plays a critical role in memory formation, but our understanding of just what the hippocampus does and how it performs its functions are still issues of considerable controversy. To enhance our knowledge about hippocampal function, we are pursuing a combination of neuropsychological studies of the nature of memory loss in animals with damage to the hippocampus and related cortical areas, and we are pursuing electrophysiological recording studies that seek to determine how information is represented by the hippocampus and associated cortical areas.

Selected Publications

• Eichenbaum, H. Hippocampus: Cognitive processes and neural representations that underlie declarative memory. Neuron. 2004 Sep; 44:109-120.
• Fortin NJ, Wright SP, Eichenbaum H. Recollection-like memory retrieval in rats is dependent on the hippocampus. Nature. 2004 Sep: 431:188-190.
• Fortin NJ, Agster KL, Eichenbaum HB. Critical role of the hippocampus in memory for sequences of events. Nat Neurosci. 2002 May;5(5):458-62.
• Wood ER, Dudchenko PA, Eichenbaum H. The global record of memory in hippocampal neuronal activity. Nature. 1999 Feb;397:613-616.
• Wood ER, Dudchenko PA, Robitsek RJ, Eichenbaum H. Hippocampal neurons encode information about different types of memory episodes occurring in the same location. Neuron. 2000 Sep;27(3):623-33.

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