Join us in congratulating Dr. Justus Kebschull on winning the “MIND” Prize (Maximizing Innovation in Neuroscience Discovery). Dr. Kebschull’s lab will use a combination of next generation viral tools, cellular barcoding and high throughput sequencing to delineate the brain wide cerebellar connection at a single cell resolution.
Featured Event
Kavli NDI-X Seminar: Marcia Becu, PhD, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience
My research focuses on the behavioral consequences of visual and cognitive aging in the context of spatial cognition. I will present a series of experiments that combine eye-tracking, motion capture and/or neuroimaging in order to study ecological navigation in humans. Overall, my works suggest that spatial representations are preferentially anchored on geometric cues with advancing age, while landmark or object information fail to be bound to the cognitive map of space. Throughout this presentation, I will try to argue against the traditional view that attributes age-related navigation difficulty to altered allocentric representations by showing that old adults are as efficient navigators as younger ones, if their preferred cue (i.e. geometry) is available in the environment. I will also present follow-up data that test whether individual spatial coding preferences are associated with specific gaze or neural dynamics.
Featured Event
Kavli NDI-X Seminar: Marcia Becu, PhD, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience
My research focuses on the behavioral consequences of visual and cognitive aging in the context of spatial cognition. I will present a series of experiments that combine eye-tracking, motion capture and/or neuroimaging in order to study ecological navigation in humans. Overall, my works suggest that spatial representations are preferentially anchored on geometric cues with advancing age, while landmark or object information fail to be bound to the cognitive map of space. Throughout this presentation, I will try to argue against the traditional view that attributes age-related navigation difficulty to altered allocentric representations by showing that old adults are as efficient navigators as younger ones, if their preferred cue (i.e. geometry) is available in the environment. I will also present follow-up data that test whether individual spatial coding preferences are associated with specific gaze or neural dynamics.