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    • Mechanisms of human spatial navigation >
      • HD-Coding project
    • How normal and pathological aging affect navigational functions
    • Theoretically motivated diagnostic tools
    • Neurobiologically inspired behavioral interventions
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    • GridCAT
    • MTL segmentation
    • MIC task
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  • 2018
  • 07/2018: New paper

    Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation reveals a causal role of the human precuneus in spatial updating.
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  • 04/2018: New paper

    On the (a)symmetry between the perception of time and space in large-scale environments.
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  • 03/2018: New paper

    Negative errors in time reproduction tasks.
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  • 03/2018: New paper

    Compromised grid-cell-like representations in old age as a key mechanism to explain age-related navigational deficits.
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  • 01/2018: New paper

    Social targets improve body-based and environment-based strategies during spatial navigation.
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  • 2017
  • 11/2017: New review

    Embodiment in the aging mind.
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  • 08/2017: New review

    The Aging Navigational System.
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  • 07/2017: New paper

    The GridCAT: A Toolbox for Automated Analysis of Human Grid Cell Codes in fMRI.
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  • 07/2017: New paper

    The Effects of Attentional Engagement on Route Learning Performance in a Virtual Environment: An Aging Study.
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  • 07/2017: New paper

    A protocol for manual segmentation of medial temporal lobe subregions in 7 Tesla MRI.
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  • 06/2017: New paper

    Cue combination in human spatial navigation.
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  • 02/2017: New toolbox released

    We released our new toolbox for automated analysis of human grid cell codes in fMRI.
    Check out the toolbox here...

  • 2016
  • 12/2016: New paper

    Learning New Sensorimotor Contingencies: Effects of Long-Term Use of Sensory Augmentation on the Brain and Conscious Perception.
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  • 11/2016: iSCAN 2016

    The first DZNE Interdisciplinary Symposium on Spatial Cognition in Aging & Neurodegeneration (iSCAN) took place at the DZNE Magdeburg.
    Find more information here...

  • 09/2016: New paper

    The Human Dentate Gyrus Plays a Necessary Role in Discriminating New Memories.
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  • 08/2016: New paper

    Comparable rest-related promotion of spatial memory consolidation in younger and older adults.
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  • 06/2016: iNAV 2016

    The first interdisciplinary navigation symposium (iNAV) took place in Bad Gastein (Austria).
    See some impressions of the meeting here...

  • 06/2016: New paper

    The Human Retrosplenial Cortex and Thalamus Code Head Direction in a Global Reference Frame.
    Find the full paper here...

  • 01/2016: New paper

    Space, time, and numbers in the right posterior parietal cortex: Differences between response code associations and congruency effects.
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  • 01/2016: New paper

    Systematic Underreproduction of Time Is Independent of Judgment Certainty.
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  • 2015
  • 08/2015: New paper

    Wakeful rest promotes the integration of spatial memories into accurate cognitive maps.
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  • 05/2015: New paper

    Structure–function–behavior relationship in estrogen-induced synaptic plasticity.
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  • 03/2015: New article

    Article on Spatial Navigation in the International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (Second Edition).
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  • 03/2015: New paper

    Changes in pattern completion – A key mechanism to explain age-related recognition memory deficits?.
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  • 01/2015: New paper

    Rest boosts the long-term retention of spatial associative and temporal order information.
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Prof. Dr. Thomas Wolbers
Aging & Cognition Research Group
Otto-von-Guericke-Universität
Leipziger Str. 44
39120 Magdeburg, Germany
Phone: +49 391 / 67 245 19