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The Spatial Cognition and Navigational Neuroscience Lab at the University of Texas at Arlington. #cognitive #neuroscience #psychology #vr # #fmri Directed by @stevenmweisberg.bsky.social

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New findings suggest memory framing effects are more complex than previously thought and may not require emotional arousal:
psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

12.12.2025 23:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ece Yuksel presented her poster β€œAge differences in spatial navigation across real and virtual worlds: A mixed-methods approach” at Psychonomic Society 2025, for which she was awarded the Graduate Travel Award. See all SCANN Lab Psychonomic posters here: scannlab.org/psynom-2025

04.12.2025 14:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
4 smiling people in a wintry icicle like landscape

4 smiling people in a wintry icicle like landscape

We are now spread across three institutions, but the SCANN LAN is now reunited at @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social

@eceyuksel.bsky.social @adamjbarnas.com @chengsiy.bsky.social

21.11.2025 18:31 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Representing the MemoLab at Psychonomics, Valentina Krenz will be presenting tomorrow, poster II-153, on the effects of retrieval practice on memory precision 🌠

20.11.2025 23:32 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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I will be presenting my latest endeavor on spatial navigation strategy optimization featuring RL modeling and a new DSP task!
And here's link to our fleet: scannlab.org/psynom-2025

See you around the Poster session I at I-069!
@scannlab.bsky.social
@psychonomicsociety.bsky.social
#psynom25

19.11.2025 16:27 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Ashish Sahoo, Poster II-080 on Friday @ 12pm

Ashish presents a meta-analysis examining the correlation between hippocampal volume and navigation and memory performance. The work-in-progress shows a weak relation, but also publication bias

Ashish is also on the job market and looking for post-docs!

19.11.2025 15:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ece Yuksel, Poster I-073 on Thursday @ 6pm

Ece presents her qualitative/quant study in which she asks younger and older adults about their actual navigation behavior (and combines this with their performance on Virtual Silcton.)

Ece is on the job market and looking for post-docs!

19.11.2025 15:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Chengsi Yi, Poster I-069 on Thursday @ 6pm.

Chengsi presents ongoing work modeling a navigation task using Q-learning to determine how risk and cognition impact strategy choice. He also discusses an ongoing task based on the Dual Solution Paradigm, which gives navigators more range to explore.

19.11.2025 15:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Postcard with information about three presenters from the SCANN Lab and information about their poster session. More information in the subsequent posts about each one.

Postcard with information about three presenters from the SCANN Lab and information about their poster session. More information in the subsequent posts about each one.

The SCANN Lab will be at @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social this week (except for @stevenmweisberg.bsky.social - he's stuck in Texas.)

If you're there, connect with our awesome PhD students!

And if you're NOT there, you can still follow our work. www.scannlab.org/psynom-2025

19.11.2025 15:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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A Voyage Into the Art of Finding One’s Way at Sea

A huge thankyou to @alexaroblesgil.bsky.social for covering our research in the Marshall Islands for the @nytimes.com !

In the photo Ken Daniels (an expert indigenous sailor) is looking towards the horizon whilst wearing an fNIRS system.

Analysis underway!

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/s...

19.11.2025 15:01 β€” πŸ‘ 26    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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New Texas initiative could shape the future of dementia research, scientists say Researchers hope the proposed institute will expedite scientific discoveries and AI innovation.

We are excited to announce that Dr. Steven Weisberg, was recently featured in The Dallas Morning News!

Read the full article here:
www.dallasnews.com/news/2025/10...

07.11.2025 19:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Newly trained navigation and verbal memory skills in humans elicit changes in task-related networks but not brain structure Learning new navigation or memory skills engages flexible brain network dynamics without altering gray matter, white matter, or hippocampal structure.

what happens when you spend two weeks learning new navigation or memory skills? as shown in our recent paper below, brain network connectivity changes but not hippocampal or other brain volumes! special thanks to collaborators Li Zheng and Steve Weisberg

elifesciences.org/articles/106...

05.11.2025 23:25 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

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