Human Spatial Cognition Laboratory – Page 3 – Principle Investigator: Arne Ekstrom, PhD

New paper published in Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience!

October 28, 2014July 17, 2018 Arne Ekstrom

New paper by graduate student Jared Stokes demonstrates roles for CA3/DG in pattern separation and completion during a novel spatial learning paradigm. Jared's paper also suggests a new role for CA1 in binding geometric templates ....

Wherefor art thou, cognitive map? New review paper published

October 27, 2014July 17, 2018 Aiden Arnold

The hippocampus has long been thought to house the neural mechanisms necessary for encoding a cognitive map of spatial environments. However, recent research in humans suggests that cognitive maps may be more distributed throughout the ....