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The SCANN Lab is coming to Psychonomic Society #psynom23! Presentations on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Can't make it? We got you. go.ufl.edu/psynom23 for all lab posters! Find us here, too: @a_a_d_d_a_a_m_m, Eliany Perez, Ece Yüksel, Jeff

SCANN Lab PhD student Eliany Perez leading a really cool project here, funded by @SRNDNA to examine variability in decision making and spatial navigation behavior in older adults (with and without AD). Also featuring @PeterKvam , @dawnbowersphd, Dr. Natalie Ebner and Adam Barnas

Now out in the Journal of Cognition!! SCANN Lab research led by Adam Barnas! When you see a sign, or look at your GPS, you might be guided by spatial directions, which help show you the way to go. 1/x

I'm developing a new graduate course this semester where we discuss (and apply!) advanced methods in f/MRI. I'm having a lot of fun picking papers, but I'm also assembling a list of imaging resources for novice -> intermediate -> advanced imagers! github.com/smweis/methods…

We are celebrating the UF McKnight Brain Institute 's 25th anniversary as a lab today! Come check the SCANN Lab poster on the 4th floor of the MBI if you want to get to know a little more about us and what we do.

🎉Successfully defended my master's thesis, "Navigating The Metaverse: The Relation Between Scale and Expertise In Spatial Knowledge Of Immersive and Desktop Virtual Reality," with no revisions! 🚀

Thrilled to announce that SCANN Lab graduate student Eliany Perez has been awarded a Leighton E. Cluff Aging research award for her original manuscript on decision-making and aging. Congrats, Eliany! uff.ufl.edu/giving-opportu…

The SCANN Lab bike group is back! It's a bitter sweet end of the semester so far. We're celebrating Chengsi Yi's first year at UF but also taking the time to hang out with Jeff before he leaves us for his own grad school adventure 😢

Would a compass help you learn a large-scale environment better?🧭 What about a mountain range?🏔️ Our results show that this is not the way to enhance spatial memory. See our (my first 🥹) preprint with Steven Weisberg & Zachary Boogaart! osf.io/preprints/psya… SCANN Lab

A SCANN Lab preprint and first first-author submission from star grad student Ece Yüksel!

Really grateful to be part of such an amazing team - Eliany Perez Ece Yüksel Jeff Adam Barnas Chengsi Yi and Ashish Sahoo. Makes the work worth doing.

Supporting Spatial Navigation with Steven Weisberg from our CogNav Webinar Series is available to watch back at youtube.com/watch?utm_camp… #CognitiveNavigation #SpatialNavigation #Wayfinding

A commentary in Nature Human Behaviour from @RHeersmink makes the case that using LLMs could impair our ability to think critically and write well. He makes a strong and clear case, analogizing LLMs to GPS/calculators. But I think he misses the opportunity... nature.com/articles/s4156…

Adam Barnas Jeff Eliany Perez Zachary Boogaart Dawn Bowers Dr. Natalie Ebner Steven Weisberg UF Psychology Dept UF Center for Cognitive Aging and Memory Norman Fixel Institute for Neurological Diseases SCANN Lab I am going to cite this in my review! Great work team 🧠🙌

🚨I am recruiting PhD students!🚨 (Please re-post this!) If you are interested in #spatialNavigation, #fMRI, #aging, #virtualReality, #AlzheimersDisease and more, please consider applying to work with me! IMPORTANT: Please email me prior to applying!

Can't recommend Steven Weisberg enough for anyone considering grad school! He's an expert in his field, but more importantly, he genuinely cares about his students' growth. Happy to chat about my experiences working with him—feel free to reach out!

🚨New paper alert🚨 tandfonline.com/eprint/APYG6JX… This one's a bit different! Led by stellar PhD candidate Ashley N. Krause who has taught me more about social psychology than anyone else. First - a question: Is a ship a place?

Ashley N. Krause is hard at work developing a dissertation, which will empirically exam these notions of place and place coherence. So stay tuned for some hard data! More examples of things that Steve thinks are places that most other people do not below:

🚨fantastic post doc opportunity here!!🚨 As a bonus, I’m involved in this project and can say it’s a can’t miss opportunity to combine brain imaging, EEG, and spatial navigation with top notch collaborators! Reach out with questions!

📰 Professional Update 📰 I’m thrilled to announce that I am joining the University of Texas at Arlington Psychology Department as an Assistant Professor starting in Fall 2025!