Role of novelty and uncertainty in memory formation: neural mechanisms

Caswell is a neuroscientist whose goal is to build a computational understanding of the neural basis of memory. This will entail explaining how a network of neurons is able to store, update and retrieve information about the world and events that happen within it. To this end, Caswell studies spatial memory and its representation in the hippocampal formation. His lab uses tools such as computational modelling and optogenetic manipulations to understand how the processes of memory formation and retrieval are triggered.