Good time to remember the Ranck Symposium four years ago, Sept 7, 2016. Jim discovered head-direction cells in 1984, with full-reports in 1990 (pub 1 and pub 2). Jim’s 90th birthday last week. Remarkable set of talk, all in one day. Below is the sequence with video links. (Some messiness with the videos).

1. Charles Nicholson Brain Impedance, Stimulation, and Extracellular Space
2. Lynn Nadel, PhD – Finding Our Direction in the Early Days of Cognitive Map Theory
3. John O’Keefe – Place Cells in the Hippocampus, Past and Present
4. Phillip J Best, PhD – No Kidding They Really Were Place Cells
5. John Kubie, PhD – The Hippocampus in Brooklyn; Head Direction Cells and Beyond
6. Bruce L McNaughton, PhD – Mechanisms of Place Field Formation Still a Mystery after all these year
7.  Neil Burgess, PhD – Neural Mechanisms of Spatial Cognition
8. David W Tank, PhD – Place Cell Dynamics During Navigation
9. Jeffrey S Taube, PhD – Jim Got Me Headed in the Right Direction
10.  György Buzsáki, MD, PhD & Adrien Peyrache, PhD – Jim’s Work Pointed to the Right Direction
11.  Nachum Ulanovsky, PhD – Neural Basis of 3D Goal Directed Navigation in Bats
12. Howard Eichenbaum, PhD – Ranck’s Rule Reflections on the Behavioral Correlates of Hippocampal Neurons
13. Matt Shapiro, PhD – Place Cells and Memory
14. Wendy A Suzuki, PhD – How the Hippocampus Learns from Errors
15. André Fenton, PhD – Signal in the Noise Non Local Spatial Information in Place and Head Direction
16. Jim Knierim, PhD – Local Cue Influences on Place Cells Objects, Vectors, and Textures
17. Steven E Fox, PhD – Thoughts and Comments
18.  James B Ranck, Jr , MD Thoughts and Comments