🚨The SCANN Lab @ UTA is hiring a postdoctoral researcher!🚨

Topics: 🧭 spatial navigation, 🧠 fMRI, 🎮 VR, 👵 cognitive aging.

Start date: Nov 2025 (flexible).

Salary: NIH levels.

Details 👇

Right - I think this would fit within the "Capacity" level of this table? There's no commitment to a map-like property or representation. Though, I might need to read Egan (2020) to figure out what a vehicle is. Some of the philosophy here is a bit over my head.

On the lighter side, my 7 year old found the funniest combination of stickers possible today.

In Dallas for the Dallas Aging and Cognition Conference, but love this!

Ask not what your city can do for you, but what city you can do for your!

Oops - Ashish's poster's image didn't make it on the last slide!

@elianyperez.bsky.social (5th year PhD student) presents ongoing research looking at the explore-exploit tradeoff in gambling and navigation in older adults. Sound familiar? Her RR was just accepted using a similar design in younger adults! osf.io/preprints/ps...

Friday, 11/22, 7:45pm - Poster 4086

Next, @eceyuksel.bsky.social (4th year PhD student) presents her Master's thesis. Ece used HMD and desktop VR to investigate a really interesting spatial scale hypothesis, which could explain the video game player advantage in navigation!

Thursday, 11/21, 7:30pm - Poster 1084

Up first, Chengsi Yi (2nd year PhD student) presents his work using real-time fMRI to attempt to modify navigation strategy! Did it work...you'll have to ask him:

Thursday, 11/21, 7:30pm - Poster 1079

In a pre-registered analysis, controlling for navigation ability, we found a small but statistically significant correlation that fell within our "equivocal" range based on Bayesian analyses. But it was in the predicted direction! People who took familiar routes, explored the new deck less!

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@elianyperez.bsky.social tested this in an individual differences framework. She ran 150 younger adults through a navigation task, in which people could take a familiar learned route or take a novel shortcut.

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Hmm. Works for me in the app too…

@Eliany_Perez_ crushed her qualifying exam today and I couldn’t be more proud; though honestly it feels as though I’m just along for the ride of her brilliance.

First ScannLab PhD student to reach that benchmark!

My work in word cloud form! I think “navigation” appears too frequently to count here.

Congrats to stellar SCANN lab grad student Eliany Perez on her Psychonomics travel award!

It’ll be a phenomenal conference for navigation folks!