2000 LECTURE SERIES

Memory without Remembering and Vision without Seeing

Dr. Larry Weiskrantz
Department of Experimental Psychology
Oxford University
May 24, 2000

People with brain damage may be unable to learn and remember explicit information, yet they can store new information at an implicit level. Others, considered blind, are able to discriminate visual events without knowing that they do. Dr. Weiskrantz discusses how these subtle learning and perceptual phenomena offer clues to conscious awareness.

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Critical Issues in Brain and Memory

Dr. James L. McGaugh
Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory
University of California, Irvine
April 4, 2000

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Is Alzheimer's Our Reward for Living Longer?

Dr. Dennis Selkoe
Center for Neurologic Diseases
Harvard Medical School
February 22, 2000

Life expectancy rose dramatically in the recent century - from 49 to 77 years. But this increase in longevity has come with a price: More of us are now likely to suffer from age-related brain degeneration. Dr. Selkoe discusses the dramatic process being made in understanding the causes of Alzheimer's disease and the imminent testing of drugs that may prevent or slow its devastating effects.

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