SCANN Lab @ScannLab

Spatial Cognition and Navigational Neuroscience Lab. @UTA. Just a lab finding our way around the brain and the world. Director: @stevenmweisberg scannlab.psych.ufl.edu Arlington, TX Joined September 2019

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SCANN Lab @ScannLab

2 weeks ago

We are excited to share that another SCANN Lab member, Ece Yüksel, has successfully defended her dissertation! Congratulations on this milestone and thank you for your many contributions to SCANN Lab.

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3 weeks ago

We are excited to share that Ashish Sahoo has successfully completed his dissertation defense. He has also been awarded with the UF Hipergator Early Career award and the Gerber Research award for his outstanding work. We congratulate him on this significant achievement!

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2 months ago

SCANN Lab attended the CRaNE Conference in Atlanta this May, where we presented some of our latest research! navsci.gatech.edu

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2 months ago

We are thrilled to share that SCANN Lab member @ashnkrause has published her work on place attachment influencing meaning in life! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

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2 months ago

The SCANN Lab is officially extramurally funded at UTA! Dr. Weisberg and Dr. Hunter Ball, received a grant from the Alliance of Hispanic Serving Research Universities to study GPS-supported navigation and support leadership development through the ASCENDR Leadership Program.

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3 months ago

We recently wrote on these ideas too! In a chapter published in the Encyclopedia of the Human Brain, we dive into how these differences emerge from navigation strategies and underlying cognitive systems: osf.io/9x6a3

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3 months ago

Why do some people never get lost while others rely on GPS? A new review, written by Hugo Spiers and @Emre_Yavuz_21 nature.com/articles/s4415… argues that navigation ability is shaped by both fixed factors (age, genetics) and modifiable ones (sleep, exercise, experience).

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3 months ago

Zoe Cronin presented her research proposal at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) annual meeting. Here’s the link to her poster: scannlab.org/resources-item…

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3 months ago

Individuals with aphantasia have difficulty forming mental imagery, and with her future research, Zoe aims to develop more inclusive methods for teaching complex concepts to students.

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3 months ago

Zoe Cronin, our first year PhD student at SCANN lab was recently interviewed by Dallas Morning News where she discusses a condition known as aphantasia and its relationship to spatial cognition. Read more on this here: msn.com/en-us/money/ge…

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3 months ago

They emphasize the importance of open science, standardizing navigation assessment methods, and focusing more on real-world challenges in navigation, particularly those experienced by older adults.

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3 months ago

A recent book on navigation, “Challenges in Navigation Research”, includes a final chapter that was co-authored by Dr. Weisberg. In that chapter, the authors propose a framework for future research in the field. link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…

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4 months ago

and RSC was successful at decoding categories during the approach-avoidance task as well as at task decoding. These findings suggest that activity in these scene selective regions is not fixed and is influenced by behavioral goals.

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4 months ago

Participants performed a categorization (classify scenes by type) and approach-avoidance task (decide whether or not to approach a scene). Results showed that OPA had the highest category decoding, OPA and PPA were successful at decoding categories during the categorization task

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4 months ago

In their study, Koc et al. looked at how scene selective brain regions (PPA, OPA, RSC) change their activity depending on behavioral goals. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

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4 months ago

They showed that contextual changes (such as adding novel wall, ceiling and floor colors and textures) led to greater overestimation of distance judgments, followed by global geometric changes, while local geometric changes had weaker effects.

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4 months ago

In this recently published study, the researchers manipulated geometric and contextual cues in a virtual environment and observed their effects on participants’ distance judgments. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hi…

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5 months ago

Dr. Weisberg explains how using AI to investigate the relationship between brain structure and navigational abilities suggests that there might not be any relation between the two as previously thought. Read more on this news article here: uta.edu/news/news-rele…

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5 months ago

Dr. Weisberg just went on his first professional podcast! Tune in to hear about how people navigate, why GPS can help OR hurt, and what aging teaches us about flexibility and strategy. Give it a listen! open.spotify.com/episode/0Z5owV… And reach out! We'd love to hear what you think.

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5 months ago

In other words, memory seems to be biased toward a familiar or preferred way of seeing a scene or object, and then the brain expands or contracts the memory of what we have seen to match that preferred view.