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Michael J. Kahana

Michael J. Kahana

· Ph.D.

University of Pennsylvania · Neuroscience

Active 1984–2026

h-index95
Citations36.5k
Papers41098 last 5y
Funding$25.0M1 active

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Michael J. Kahana, Ph.D, is a faculty member in the Biomedical Graduate Studies at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on human episodic memory for verbal, visual, and spatial information. He conducts experiments that measure behavioral and electrophysiological responses during memory tasks and develops computational models to explain the resulting data. His lab is one of several studying the electrophysiological responses of neurons through direct intracranial electroencephalographic (iEEG) recording from the living human brain, often involving epilepsy patients with surgically implanted electrodes. By analyzing brain activity, including responses of individual neurons, in relation to task variables, he studies the neurophysiological basis of memory with high spatial and temporal resolution. Current projects include studies of spatial navigation using a virtual taxi driver game and computational modeling of the role of temporal context in visual and verbal memory.

Research topics

  • Computer Science
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Cognitive psychology
  • Sociology
  • Data science
  • Internet privacy
  • Epistemology
  • Business

Selected publications

  • Theta Oscillations in Human Memory

    Trends in Cognitive Sciences · 2020-02-03 · 585 citations

    reviewOpen accessSenior authorCorresponding
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  • Advances in human intracranial electroencephalography research, guidelines and good practices

    NeuroImage · 2022-07-02 · 225 citations

    reviewOpen access

    Since the second-half of the twentieth century, intracranial electroencephalography (iEEG), including both electrocorticography (ECoG) and stereo-electroencephalography (sEEG), has provided an intimate view into the human brain. At the interface between fundamental research and the clinic, iEEG provides both high temporal resolution and high spatial specificity but comes with constraints, such as the individual's tailored sparsity of electrode sampling. Over the years, researchers in neuroscienc…

    PublisherDOI

  • Time cells in the human hippocampus and entorhinal cortex support episodic memory

    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2020-10-27 · 213 citations

    articleOpen access

    The organization of temporal information is critical for the encoding and retrieval of episodic memories. In the rodent hippocampus and entorhinal cortex, evidence accumulated over the last decade suggests that populations of "time cells" in the hippocampus encode temporal information. We identify time cells in humans using intracranial microelectrode recordings obtained from 27 human epilepsy patients who performed an episodic memory task. We show that time cell activity predicts the temporal o…

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  • Laws of Human Memory

    2022 · 17 citations

    1st authorCorresponding

    Despite the complexity of memory and its diverse manifestations in our daily lives, certain mnemonic effects appear to hold across a wide range of conditions. We identify the effects of recency, contiguity, similarity, primacy, and repetition as potential laws of memory, evaluating their explanatory scope and discussing their theoretical significance. We show that apparent violations of these laws occur when different effects come into conflict, as in the situation of opposing physical forces. W…

    PublisherOA PDFDOI

  • Benefits of sharing neurophysiology data from the BRAIN Initiative Research Opportunities in Humans Consortium

    Neuron · 2023 · 14 citations

    PublisherOA PDFDOI

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    Harvard University

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    Jefferson University Hospitals

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    University of California, Davis

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    University of California, San Diego

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  • Jeff Jordan

    University of Delaware

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  • Robert D. Melara

    City College of New York

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