Learning & Memory

Howard Eichenbaum (Ph. D. University of Michigan) is a University Professor at Boston University, where he is also the Director of the Center for Memory and Brain and the chairman of the Department of Psychology. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship in neuroscience at M. I. T, and he has held previous academic positions at Wellesley College, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the State University of New York at Stony Brook. His research focuses on how memories are represented and organized in the brain to support our capacity for conscious recollection. He has published over 170 papers, reviews, and commentaries as well as two edited volumes and three monographs including Memory, Amnesia and the Hippocampal System (1993), From Conditioning to Conscious Recollection: Memory Systems of the Brain (2001), and The Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory: An Introduction (2002). He is editor-in-chief of the journal Hippocampus, and is a member of the editorial board of 10 research journals and encyclopedias.