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August 16, 2019 The Chrastil Lab was awarded a grant from NSF for “Cognitive graphs: The geometry of spatial knowledge”. The grant will use VR to study how people understand navigational space and the underlying geometry of cognitive maps. Facebook Twitter

July 1, 2019 The Chrastil Lab is moving to the Department of Neurobiology & Behavior at UC Irvine starting fall 2019. We are looking for research staff, postdocs, grad students, and undergrad students to join the lab. We’ll be setting up studies using human neuroimaging and virtual reality. Facebook Twitter

July 1, 2019 We are looking for two postdocs to join the lab at UC Irvine. Facebook Twitter More information and application procedures can be found here: https://recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF05438 https://recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF05440

June 24, 2019 The Chrastil Lab has published a paper in Cognition: “Vision and proprioception make equal contributions to path integration in a novel homing task.” The paper examines the loop closure task, contrasting levels of vision and proprioceptive information, finding them to make equal contributions. However, the two cues were not weighted in a Bayesian ideal…

April 18, 2019 Lily Cheng presented her talk “From individual cognitive maps to a collective cognitive map: Prescriptive guidelines” and Liz Chrastil presented her talk “Central coordination and integration of diverse information to form a single map” at the Collective Spatial Cognition Workshop. Facebook Twitter

January 22, 2019 The Chrastil Lab has been awarded a grant to study individual differences in navigational abilities from the Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies (Army Research Office) Facebook Twitter

December 14, 2018 Liz Chrastil gave a talk at the Society for Neuroscience Conference in November. This talk was principally concerned with the comparison of Theta oscillations during active and passive decision making in human spatial navigation. Theta oscillations have been related to learning in a number of contexts. Examining the role of these oscillations…

November 14, 2018 Lily Cheng, a second year graduate student, gave a poster presentation at Psychonomics Conference in New Orleans in November. Lily’s poster was concerned with the effects of motion adaptation. Facebook Twitter

October 14, 2018 The Chrastil lab published two papers in the journal Behavioral Neuroscience during 2018. These papers investigate the function and connectivity of the retrosplenial cortex: an understudied area of human cortex that may have some connections to human navigation. This is a region of interest to Liz Chrastil, who will continue to do…

October 14, 2018 The Chrastil lab published two papers in the journal Behavioral Neuroscience during 2018. These papers investigate the function and connectivity of the retrosplenial cortex: an understudied area of human cortex that may have some connections to human navigation. This is a region of interest to Liz Chrastil, who will continue to do…