The ‘Neural Correlations of Object Location Memory’ project is a Postdoctoral Fellowship funded by the Horizon Europe (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, grant agreement no: 101065831).

Project description

Remembering where things are, for example, where you parked your car, is essential en everyday life. Without spatial memory, we would continuously be engaged in looking for our car, keys, phone, or glasses. Despite its obvious importance, a lot is still unknown about object location memory (OLM). In this grant, we aim to uncover how we map the world around us, and specifically the mechanisms underlying OLM. For example, OLM itself is a combination of at least three cognitive processes: memory for objects, memory for locations, and the binding of objects to locations. In this grant we aim to tease these processes apart. We look at how people rely on these individual processes to find patterns in individual differences and will perform Dynamic Causal Modelling on fMRI data to define a model of healthy object location memory, which can be used as a baseline for studies on atypical OLM (e.g., dementia).

Collaborators

In this project I join forces with:

Project students:

Master students:
– Aras Maran
– Tyren Romijn
– Ting Wang

Former students:
Graduate:
– Ása María Ásgeirsdóttir
– Océane Peschar

Undergraduate:
– Naomi Duncan
– Law Ho Ching
– Tsoi Sammi
– Sek Tsun Kit

My research has been been made possible by the following institutions: