Experimental Psychology Departmental Seminar: Structuring experience in cognitive spaces
The fundamental question in cognitive neuroscience—what are the key coding principles of the brain enabling human thinking—still remains largely unanswered. Evidence from neurophysiology suggests that place and grid cells in the hippocampal-entorhinal system provide an internal spatial map, the brain’s SatNav—the most intriguing neuronal coding scheme outside the sensory system. Our framework is concerned with the key idea that this navigation system in the brain—potentially as a result of evolution—provides the blueprint for a neural metric underlying human cognition. Specifically, we propose that the brain maps experience in so-called ‘cognitive spaces’. In this talk, I will give an overview of our theoretical framework and experimental approach and will present show-case examples from our fMRI, MEG and virtual reality experiments identifying cognitive coding mechanisms in the hippocampal-entorhinal system and beyond
Date:
16 May 2019, 12:00 (Thursday, 3rd week, Trinity 2019)
Venue:
New Radcliffe House, Walton Street OX2 6NW
Venue Details:
Seminar Room, New Radcliffe House, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter
Speaker:
Professor Christian Doeller (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig)
Organising department:
Department of Experimental Psychology
Hosts:
Professor Kia Nobre (University of Oxford),
Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)
Part of:
Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editors:
David Fernandez Clavero,
George Goss
