Howard Eichenbaum

Leader in contemporary research, providing a unified account of human and animal memory that identifies distinct functions of the hippocampal formation and related brain structures in memory. Using an elegant combination of techniques--multiple single-cell recording, behavior and anatomy--he has generated an integrated approach to understanding memory that goes beyond a focus on spatial memory. In particular, his discovery of time-cells has complimented work on place-cells in showing that it is the combined use of temporal and spatial information that allows the hippocampus to establish a scaffold for the formation of episodic memories.