Dr. Marc Howard

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Biography

Marc Howard is a Professor at Boston University in the College of Arts and Sciences, specializing in Psychological and Brain Sciences. His research focuses on cognitive neural representation, incorporating mathematical psychology and computational neuroscience. He aims to understand the dynamics of episodic and semantic memory, and reward learning predictions. Professor Howard leads the Theoretical Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, where he develops mathematical models of cognition and evaluates behavioral and neurophysiological data to bridge cognitive and systems-level neuroscience. His current projects examine episodic memory and the brain's constructs of spatial and temporal contexts underlying these memories. His extensive experience includes multiple principal investigator roles on significant grants, such as the NIH-funded project on neural representations across time scales, as well as research into memory organization in the hippocampus. His work has wide-ranging implications for understanding temporal organization in human memory and has received recognition in various media outlets.

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Experience

Professor

2010-01-01 — Present

Boston University • Boston, MA

Requirements for Boston University

Doctorate Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3.88
TOEFL
Total
Required:100
Prerequisites
Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution
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