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1 mo. left to submit an abstract for the Conference for Research and Education in Navigation! We have a stellar lineup of speakers and submitted talks and posters already!
@aliprestonphd.bsky.social @noranewcombe.bsky.social @russellepstein.bsky.social @tammyish.bsky.social @gtsciences.bsky.social

New paper out in JEP:General, led by uber-productive grad student Ricardo Morales Torres (@rmt93.bsky.social): We use behavior and RNNs to show that object semantics protect visual WM against visual interference but increase susceptibility to semantic interference.
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Some neuroscience flavored swag for my car club

Egocentric Spatial Memory Deficit in Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment Revealed Through Virtual Reality: Cross-Sectional Study Background: Spatial navigation relies on egocentric and allocentric frames of reference, with the latter critically impaired in Alzheimer disease (AD) due to hippocampal involvement. Recent evidence s...

Check out this fascinating article aging.jmir.org/2026/1/e79224

Place cells in CA1 lack topographical organization of firing locations | PNAS Topography is a well-described and well-known concept for cortical organization in primary sensory and motor cortices of mammalian brains. Similar ...

A half-century old question may have its final answer. Using high-resolution #Mini2P microscopes, we find no evidence of local topography in #PlaceCells. Place fields of neighbouring cells are no more similar than those of randomly selected cells. 🧠🗺️ Out now in @pnas.org www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Excited for @crane-navsci.bsky.social conference!
Our keynote speaker is @russellepstein.bsky.social, with a panel @noranewcombe.bsky.social @aliprestonphd.bsky.social and Daniel Dilks. This is a super intimate and interdisciplinary conference focused on spatial cognition.

Submissions are open!

Please share - we hope to see you and your work in May!

Harmonized Protocol for Subfield Segmentation in the Hippocampal Body on High‐Resolution In Vivo MRI From the Hippocampal Subfields Group (HSG) Hippocampal subfields differentially develop and age, and they vary in vulnerability to neurodegenerative diseases. Innovation in high-resolution imaging has accelerated clinical research on human hi....

The Hippocampal Subfields Group standardized+reliable protocol for defining hippocampal body subfields in MR images is published! This is the result of a massive international effort. Check it out and keep your eyes peeled for training events from our raters

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Is it the definition of madness that I keep pouring countless hours into developing NIH proposals?

The hippocampal map has its own attentional control signal!
Our new study reveals that theta #sweeps can be instantly biased towards behaviourally relevant locations. See 📹 in post 4/6 and preprint here 👉
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Planning + navigating novel shortcuts differently tax vmPFC subregions

Shortcuts differing more from prior experience are more demanding

Posterior vmPFC functions more closely resemble hippocampus and event separation

@crane-navsci.bsky.social
@paulinamaxim.bsky.social

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Kind of awesome belated Christmas gift from my mom

Wayne State University’s vice president for research & innovation announces new leader of the Institute of Gerontology

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🚨 Our latest preprint:

A new tool to provide assessments of experience of the built environment: the NDIX.

This has been now deployed in 4 studies, being written up.

Here is the methods preprint with a starcast of co-authors:

The CRaNE center is now on Bluesky, with a new collab pub to share! Please follow for news of our members' science and our conferences and workshops!

@tammyish.bsky.social @shiyiliang.bsky.social @paulinamaxim.bsky.social @gtsciences.bsky.social @gt-neuro.bsky.social

In today's episode of "my colleagues are awesome" @tammyish.bsky.social

Going to ANFA? Check out Simin's talk on our research into how the built environment shapes memory through curiosity. I'm proud of her for the special recognition she's received!

It was an honor to get to present at the NTNU last week. And for those who are curious, Trondheim is a gorgeous city

Music Scaffolds Visual Statistical Sequence Learning Through Network-Level Reorganization in the Brain Statistical learning—the ability to extract patterns from noisy continuous experiences—is fundamental to human cognition. Yet, how contextual factors shape this process remains poorly understood. Musi...

🧠🎵 OUR NEW PREPRINT: Familiar melodies hijack your brain's learning networks—literally rewiring visual sequence processing from struggle mode to flow state.

@thackerybrown.bsky.social

🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Abby enjoys grant writing more than me

With another round of amazing seniors departing GT, they bring more tears to my eyes

Word on the street is there were 20,000 people on the ground in Atlanta today

#cns2025 come see our posters from the MAP Lab!

Sunday 5-7pm, C4 - Yiren Ren presents one of her recent studies on how music context signals influence event memory segmentation and learning

Tuesday 8-10am, F2 - Paulina Maxim presents data from young+older adult navigators on shortcut navigation

Following...

New article out! It's a collaboration in the journal Music Perception where we show that metric emphasis influences what listens hear as tonic/stable in pop music loops:
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Excellent work led by @green951.bsky.social showing how human retrosplenial cortex integrates landmarks and self-motion cues during spatial navigation!

Fortitude

Great opportunity to work with a legendary mentor

The official link to apply for the postdoc position in my lab is live. Please pass it along! utaustin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UTstaff/job/...