Media

Aug 06

1

New paper out in eLife: Entorhinal cortex maps temporal relations of memories

By Jacob Bellmund | Media, News, Research | No Comments

Often we remember very well the chronology of events. We can tell which event occurred first and how much time passed between two events. Apparently, memories of events in the brain are linked when they occurred close together. The entorhinal cortex seems to play an important role as the medial part of the temporal lobe.Using an experiment that combines learning in virtual reality and fMRI, our new paper – now out in eLife – describes how a temporal map of memories is created in the entorhinal cortex.

Jul 25

9

Exploring the human brain with virtual reality

By Anja Hanisch | Media, News, Research | No Comments

NaturePodcast made a great video on the use of “human lab rats” and virtual reality in neuroscience. Among two other neuroscience labs our VR lab at the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience was also visited and is presented by Tobias Navarro Schroeder:
Read More

Apr 24

0

Mentale Landkarten (mental maps)

By Anja Hanisch | Media, News, Research | No Comments

Mentale Landkarten – Wo bleibt eigentlich das Wissen, das wir uns jeden Tag aneignen?

(Mental maps – Where is the knowledge that we acquire each day?)

To learn the answer to this question just listen to the radio interview (in German) with Christian Doeller and Stephanie Theves

Nov 08

8

Navigating Cognition: Spatial Codes for Human Thinking

By Jacob Bellmund | Media, News, Research | No Comments

It is one of the most fundamental questions in neuroscience: How do humans think? In our latest paper, now out in Science, Jacob Bellmund and Christian Doeller teamed up with Peter Gärdenfors, cognitive scientist at Lund University, and Edvard Moser, physiologist at the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, to offer a new proposal—Humans think using their brain’s navigation system.
Read More

Oct 12

0

Silvy Collin awarded PhD

By Jacob Bellmund | Media, News, Research | No Comments

Silvy Collin defended her dissertation at the Donders Institute on 12 October 2018 and was awarded her PhD. During her time in our lab, Silvy worked on the representations of episodic memories using fMRI. Silvy is now a postdoc in Ken Norman’s Computational Memory lab at Princeton.

Oct 11

2

Visual Grids in MEG

By Jacob Bellmund | Media, News, Research | No Comments

Our new study is out in Current Biology. Staudigl et al. show grid-like modulation of human high frequency activity in non-invasive magnetoencephalographic and intracranial EEG recordings. The results indicate that the human entorhinal cortex codes visual space in a grid-like manner, supporting the view that grid-coding generalizes beyond environmental mapping during locomotion.

Jan 08

11

Hexadirectional coding of visual space in human entorhinal cortex

By Matthias Nau | Media, News, Research | No Comments

The entorhinal cortex is a crucial part of the brain’s navigation system but its function beyond navigation remains unclear. In our new study published in Nature Neuroscience, we examined entorhinal fMRI activity in a highly controlled viewing paradigm and show that the same mechanisms used to represent where we are, also represent where we look.

Jan 03

4

Memory snapshots: coordination of eye-movements and brain oscillations supports memory encoding

By Ignacio Polti | Media, News, Research | No Comments

We constantly move our eyes to sample visual information. In order to make the sampling efficient, these eye movements need to be coordinated with the intrinsic brain dynamics that constrain visual computations. Using intracranial EEG and MEG recordings, our new paper in PLOS Biology shows that eye movements are locked to the phase of alpha oscillations, and that this coordination supports mnemonic encoding of visual scenes.

Oct 03

8

Alexander Backus awarded Cum Laude PhD distinction

By Ignacio Polti | Media, News, Research | No Comments

Alexander Backus defended his dissertation at the Donders Institute on 22 September 2017 and was awarded his PhD cum laude. During his time in our lab, Alex worked on memory integration using both fMRI and MEG. Here you can find a Dutch newspaper article about his work. Alex is now a data scientiest at Big Data Republic.

Congratulations Alex!!