DoellerLab

Our memories are what makes each of us unique, but this unique set of experiences is precisely what makes scientific study of memory difficult. The cumbersome nature of neuroimaging tools…

Naomi de Haas received the competitive Jan-Brouwer thesis prize 2016 for her master thesis “Navigating our memories: how episodes and space combine in the hippocampal formation”. The prize is being…

Humans have the remarkably ability to integrate information from multiple memories and infer indirect relationships. But how does our brain support this important function? In the latest study from our…

Alzheimer's patients suffer from severe memory loss and disorientation. An international research team led by Christian Doeller (Donders Institute, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands) and Nikolai Axmacher (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany) has now…

In a new paper in Nature Neuroscience, we show that memories of the same events co-exist at different scales in the brain. To avoid interference, the different memory scales (coarse,…

The 2014 Nobel prize in Medicine was awarded for the discovery of the brain's GPS in the rodent entorhinal cortex. Despite numerous attempts in neuroscience and medicine in the past…

We've all had that ‘Aha!’ moment when pieces of a puzzling problem seem to fall into place as we gain insight into a previously obscured solution. But what happens in…