NIH R01 · 2025
Representation of spatiotemporal information in human episodic memory and navigation
Project Abstract Contemporary models of spatial navigation and episodic memory (memory for events) postulate that their underlying computations emerge primarily from shared neural mechanisms within the medial temporal lobes. As part of the last two rounds of funding for this competitive renewal, we have begun to delineate important cognitive and neural differences between navigation and episodic memory. Our emerging new framework argues for navigation as a sensory-driven cognitive motor skill involving extracting spatial regularities and episodic memory as primarily internally driven and involving ordinal placeholders. We hypothesize that navigation and episodic memory therefore involve…
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