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Hugo Spiers @hugospiers.bsky.social · 2d

🚨 Our latest preprint:

A new tool to provide assessments of experience of the built environment: the NDIX.

This has been now deployed in 4 studies, being written up.

Here is the methods preprint with a starcast of co-authors:

PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 4d

The NeuroDesign/NeuroArchitecture Index (NDIX): Development of a method to evaluate the impact of the built environment on health, cognitive performance, and wellbeing: https://osf.io/8369k

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Thackery Brown @thackerybrown.bsky.social · 4d

The CRaNE center is now on Bluesky, with a new collab pub to share! Please follow for news of our members' science and our conferences and workshops!

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Center for Research and Education in Navigation @crane-navsci.bsky.social · 4d

New collaborative publication between GT and Emory CRaNE members - introducing the NARA and a new open-source virtual city environment for assessing configural spatial memory, led by Yasmine Bassil, M. Borich
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Formation of allocentric representations after exposure to a novel, naturalistic, city-like, virtual reality environment

During human spatial navigation, individuals transform visuospatial information between egocentric (i.e., first-person, viewer-dependent, body-centere…

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Thackery Brown @thackerybrown.bsky.social · 12d

In today's episode of "my colleagues are awesome" @tammyish.bsky.social

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Thackery Brown @thackerybrown.bsky.social · 29d

Going to ANFA? Check out Simin's talk on our research into how the built environment shapes memory through curiosity. I'm proud of her for the special recognition she's received!

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Thackery Brown @thackerybrown.bsky.social · 29d

It was an honor to get to present at the NTNU last week. And for those who are curious, Trondheim is a gorgeous city

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Yiren Ren @yirenr.bsky.social · Aug 12

🧠🎵 OUR NEW PREPRINT: Familiar melodies hijack your brain's learning networks—literally rewiring visual sequence processing from struggle mode to flow state.

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Music Scaffolds Visual Statistical Sequence Learning Through Network-Level Reorganization in the Brain

Statistical learning—the ability to extract patterns from noisy continuous experiences—is fundamental to human cognition. Yet, how contextual factors shape this process remains poorly understood. Musi...

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Thackery Brown @thackerybrown.bsky.social · May 23

Abby enjoys grant writing more than me

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Thackery Brown @thackerybrown.bsky.social · Apr 24

With another round of amazing seniors departing GT, they bring more tears to my eyes

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Thackery Brown @thackerybrown.bsky.social · Apr 6

Word on the street is there were 20,000 people on the ground in Atlanta today

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Thackery Brown @thackerybrown.bsky.social · Mar 30

#cns2025 come see our posters from the MAP Lab!

Sunday 5-7pm, C4 - Yiren Ren presents one of her recent studies on how music context signals influence event memory segmentation and learning

Tuesday 8-10am, F2 - Paulina Maxim presents data from young+older adult navigators on shortcut navigation

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Thackery Brown @thackerybrown.bsky.social · Mar 22

Following...

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chriswmwhite.bsky.social @chriswmwhite.bsky.social · Mar 15

New article out! It's a collaboration in the journal Music Perception where we show that metric emphasis influences what listens hear as tonic/stable in pop music loops:
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Wolberslab @DZNE Magdeburg @wolberslab.bsky.social · Mar 10

Excellent work led by @green951.bsky.social showing how human retrosplenial cortex integrates landmarks and self-motion cues during spatial navigation!

Xiaoli Chen @green951.bsky.social · Mar 10

How does the brain unify various spatial cues to form coherent spatial representations? Our latest paper shows that RSC contains cue-independent spatial representations in terms of representational similarity during spatial navigation. #7tmri #WolbersLab
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Representational Similarity Analysis Reveals Cue-independent Spatial Representations for Landmarks and Self-motion Cues in Human Retrosplenial Cortex

Abstract. It is a fundamental question in the spatial navigation literature how different spatial cues are unified to form a coherent spatial map of the space. Landmarks and self-motion cues are two m...

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Thackery Brown @thackerybrown.bsky.social · Mar 10

Fortitude

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Thackery Brown @thackerybrown.bsky.social · Mar 8

Great opportunity to work with a legendary mentor

Audrey Duarte @audreyduarte.bsky.social · Mar 8

The official link to apply for the postdoc position in my lab is live. Please pass it along! utaustin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UTstaff/job/...

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Audrey Duarte @audreyduarte.bsky.social · Mar 8

The official link to apply for the postdoc position in my lab is live. Please pass it along! utaustin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UTstaff/job/...

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Thackery Brown @thackerybrown.bsky.social · Mar 8

Exactly - this is a very harmful stance taken. My job would be impossible without the whole team

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Thackery Brown @thackerybrown.bsky.social · Mar 8

AR and EEG are fan favorites

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Thackery Brown @thackerybrown.bsky.social · Mar 8

Our 3 newest centers, CRaNE, CHART, and CoCo are a smash hit at the STEAM outreach event! Who knew science was cool!? @gtresearchnews.bsky.social @gt-neuro.bsky.social

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Thackery Brown @thackerybrown.bsky.social · Mar 2

Does that mean the registry is back open or is it wishful thinking on our brave admins’ parts?

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Thackery Brown @thackerybrown.bsky.social · Feb 26

From the last letter my applications sent home it sounds like they are making friends

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Thackery Brown @thackerybrown.bsky.social · Feb 19

Yes I'm trying to focus on the joys within my lab

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Thackery Brown @thackerybrown.bsky.social · Feb 17

Please RT - join us in Atlanta May 17-18 for the Conference for Research and Education in Navigation! Feat. navigation + space-related research (from human and animal expt. models to architectural design, robotics, and artificial agent memory and behavior)

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Audrey Duarte @audreyduarte.bsky.social · Feb 13

First post and first paper of the year! We show that semantic memory space becomes denser with age. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... .

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