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SUMMARY:Structuring experience in cognitive spaces - Christian Doeller\, M
 PI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences\, Leipzig\, Germany 
DTSTART:20240311T161500Z
DTEND:20240311T180000Z
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CONTACT:Prof Máté Lengyel
DESCRIPTION:The fundamental question in cognitive neuroscience—what are 
 the key coding principles of the brain enabling human thinking—still rem
 ains largely unanswered. Evidence from neurophysiology suggests that place
  and grid cells in the hippocampal-entorhinal system provide an internal s
 patial map\, the brain’s SatNav—the most intriguing neuronal coding sc
 heme outside the sensory system. Our framework is concerned with the key i
 dea that this navigation system in the brain—potentially as a result of 
 evolution—provides the blueprint for a neural metric underlying human co
 gnition. Specifically\, we propose that the brain maps experience in so-ca
 lled ‘cognitive spaces’. In this talk\, I will give an overview of our
  theoretical framework and experimental approach and will present show-cas
 e examples from our fMRI\, MEG and virtual reality experiments identifying
  cognitive coding mechanisms in the hippocampal-entorhinal system and beyo
 nd.
LOCATION:Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room
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