Neural Correlates of Spatial Memory
In everyday life we navigate through known and unknown spatial environments. We have to learn how to find our way back, make a detour around a barrier or find a shortcut.
The ability to remember the spatial surroundings and to communicate about space has been crucial to human adaptation and survival. The central theme of our research group is to investigate the development of spatial skills, the underlying neural correlates of spatial representations and spatial wayfinding mechanisms, spatial language and their linkage. We investigate healthy adults and children using a combination of different methods, FMRI, EEG, measurement of eye-movements, response times as well as navigational behaviour collected during initial and repeated spatial cue learning and wayfinding.
Our research provides new insight into the nature of human spatial thinking for children and adults.
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| Name; | Gabriele Janzen |
| Telephone: | 024-3614668 |
| Email: | g.janzen@pwo.ru.nl |
| Fax: | 024-3610989 |
| Visiting address: | Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging Kapittelweg 29 6525 EN Nijmegen The Netherlands |
| Postal address: | Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging P.O. Box 9101 6500 HB Nijmegen The Netherlands |
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Theme 3:
Plasticity and Memory
Research Group
Neural Correlates of Spatial Memory
Associate Principal Investigator
Dr. G. Janzen
Group members
PhD Students
Claudia van Dun