Clement Naveilhan

6th International Mobile Brain/Body Imaging (MoBI) Conference
📅 August 25–28, 2026

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Turning corners in built environments shifts spatial attention costs Human attention is typically studied under static laboratory conditions, yet everyday cognition unfolds during active interactions with the built envi…

🚀 New paper! We just took a major step in understanding how architecture shapes cognition.

Our paper shows that something as simple as corners in rooms or corridors can shift canonical spatial attention cueing costs.

Key method? Mobile Brain/Body Imaging combined with VR!

bit.ly/47m6ssV

New preprint with @stephen-ramanoel.bsky.social !! 🥳 Mobile EEG with a spatial perspective taking task in VR ! We found alpha activity in Retrosplenial Complex dipoles influenced by the angle of perspective taking and beta for the magnitude of angle to compute !

Theta activity supports landmark-based correction of naturalistic human path integration How do humans integrate landmarks to update their spatial position during active navigation? Using immersive virtual reality and high-density mobile EEG, we investigated the neural underpinnings of la...

Want to know more? I’m excited to announce that you can now find all the details in our paper published in The Journal of Neuroscience! 🥳 : www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...

What did we found ? A dual role of theta oscillations in the Retrosplenial Complex, flexibly integrating multimodal signals, 1) supporting the recalibration of spatial representations to external cues and 2) encoding self-motion information during naturalistic human navigation.

With @stephen-ramanoel.bsky.social and @mobilebrainimaging.bsky.social we used high-density mobile EEG with virtual reality in the incredible "black room" . Participants navigated freely and were presented with a landmark that allowed them to correct deviations in their path integration.

Have you ever walked out of a tram station, started walking, and upon seeing your favorite French bakery suddenly realized you were going the wrong way, as if your entire spatial representation abruptly reoriented itself in the opposite direction?
We tested this ! (just had to replace the bakery...)

These findings demonstrate a dual role of theta oscillations in the RSC, flexibly integrating multimodal signals, 1) supporting both the recalibration of spatial representations to external cues and 2) the encoding of self-motion information during naturalistic human navigation.

🧠 New Mobile Brain/Body Imaging study on spatial navigation out!

This was a very inspiring and productive collaboration with @clementnaveilhan.bsky.social and @stephen-ramanoel.bsky.social.

Journal of Neuroscience 26 September 2025, e1005252025; lnkd.in/dJmK7_Ns

Multisensory coding of self-motion and its contribution to navigation - Nature Reviews Neuroscience As an animal moves within its environment, self-motion signals are generated by the inner ear vestibular organs and the retina and transmitted to the CNS. In this Review, Mao and Gu describe how these...

Multisensory coding of self-motion and its contribution to navigation — a Review by Dun Mao & Yong Gu

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#neuroscience #neuroskyence

Thrilled to share that our work is now published in Science! ✨

We found a preference for visual objects in the mouse spatial navigation system where they dynamically refine head-direction coding. In short, objects boost our inner compass! 🧭

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Knowing where to go may shape what you see 👀. Analysing EEG data with CNN coupled with GradCAM we investigated the temporal dynamic of navigational affordances extraction, and how knowing where to go interfere with this process.

Hippocampal theta sweeps indicate goal direction https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.21.671551v1

#TalentsCNRS 🥉 | Félicitations à @antoinecoutrot.bsky.social, chargé de recherche @CNRS au LIRIS, récompensé par la médaille de bronze du CNRS pour ses recherches sur la navigation spatiale comme marqueur du déclin cognitif.
➡️ www.ins2i.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/...
🤝 @cnrs-rhoneauvergne.bsky.social

/1 We took our sweet time (~3yrs) to put this into its final shape - but happy to say that the pre-print of an extensive review of brain rhythms in cognition - from a cognruro perspective - is now available. Please let us know what you think. #neuroskyence doi.org/10.48550/arX...

Representation of locomotive action affordances in human behavior, brains, and deep neural networks | PNAS To decide how to move around the world, we must determine which locomotive actions (e.g., walking, swimming, or climbing) are afforded by the immed...

In these tumultuous times, still happy to report a scientific achievement: our preprint on affordance perception was just published in PNAS!

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Using behavior, fMRI and deep network analyses, we report two key findings. To recapitulate (preprint 🧵lost on other place):

For simple estimands, treating everything as Gaussian works unreasonably well! But lots to learn from less simple estimands. @avehtari.bsky.social has a nice case study examining this (part of our forthcoming book on workflow) users.aalto.fi/~ave/casestu...

Pleased to announce that the 5th iSCAN Symposium, an interdisciplinary scientific conference on spatial cognition in aging and neurodegeneration, will be held from Dec 08-10, 2025 in Magdeburg. Please find more information about the meeting on the iSCAN website:
bit.ly/41jFg9j

Our paper in @natcomms.nature.com, we show how cognitive maps in the hippocampal system could solve the general problem of representing and relating multiple alternative action plans. 
doi.org/10.1038/s414...

With @doellerlab.bsky.social, Patrick Haggard, @vigano.bsky.social, Daniel Reznik

I am delighted to announce the upcoming

6th International Mobile Brain/Body Imaging Conference

in Berlin, August 26-28, 2026 at the beautiful Hotel Oderberger!

More information to follow in the coming weeks.
See you in Berlin in 2026!

#MobileEEG #MobileBrainImaging #EEG #NIRS #MoBI2026

Yes, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us via email. It would be a great pleasure and honor to exchange with you, and thanks for your feedbacks !

This is a really nice question! We found that the second theta peak scaled with the acceleration of the rotation, leading us to conclude that theta activity plays a multifaceted role: the first peak is influenced by spatial representation correction, and the second by acceleration.

Theta activity supports landmark-based correction of naturalistic human path integration How do humans integrate landmarks to update their spatial position during active navigation task? Using immersive virtual reality and high-density mobile EEG, we investigated the neural underpinnings ...

Our new preprint is out with @stephen-ramanoel.bsky.social and @mobilebrainimaging.bsky.social !!! 🥳

Combining mobile EEG and Virtual Reality our results highlight multifaceted role of theta activity in the RSC during naturalistic human path integration

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...