Professor Christian F. Doeller | Structuring experience in cognitive spaces
MPSCog Cognition Colloquium
- Date: Mar 18, 2024
- Time: 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
- Speaker: Professor Christian F. Doeller
- Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
- Room: Zoom Meeting
- Host: Max Planck School of Cognition
- Contact: Nicole.Lorenz@maxplanckschools.de
Please join online: https://zoom.us/j/93526030034?pwd=ZkJnYlFVOEthU2lDeE5nVmV6TlZLZz09 (Meeting ID: 935 2603 0034 / Passcode: 250171)
The fundamental question in cognitive neurosciencewhat are the key coding principles of the brain enabling human thinkingstill remains largely unanswered. Evidence from neurophysiology suggests that place and grid cells in the hippocampal-entorhinal system provide an internal spatial map, the brains SatNavthe most intriguing neuronal coding scheme outside the sensory system. Our framework is concerned with the key idea that this navigation system in the brainpotentially as a result of evolutionprovides the blueprint for a neural metric underlying human cognition. Specifically, we propose that the brain maps experience in so-called cognitive spaces. In this talk, I will give an overview of our theoretical framework and experimental approach and will present show- case examples from our fMRI, MEG and virtual reality experiments identifying cognitive coding mechanisms in the hippocampal-entorhinal system and beyond. Poster