Investigating the cognitive neuroscience of learning, memory, and decision-making
PEOPLE
ALEIX ALCACER SALES
RAPHAEL KAPLAN
CIDEGENT Principal Investigator at Universitat Jaume I
Behavioral, computational, & neuroimaging investigation of memory and decision-making systems. Focusing on how map-like learning mechanisms could be a widespread phenomenon in the brain beyond spatial cognition.
AMEERUDDIN GHOUSE
Postdoc at Universitat Jaume I
The role of episodic memory in navigating the prosocial world
MARTA RODRIGUEZ ARAMENDIA
PhD Student at Universitat Jaume I
Relating social and spatial anchoring biases
MARIACHIARA
ESPOSITO
PhD Student at Universitat Jaume I
Boundary and reference point use in memory-guided decision making
IGNACIO POLTI
PhD Student at Kavli Institute
(co-supervised by Christian Doeller)
Role of temporal coding in human episodic and spatial memory
LUBNA ABDUL PARVEEN
Please send a message to kaplan@uji.es for details about postdoctoral, PhD, research assistant, or other research opportunities in the group.
DÖRTE KUHRT
PhD Student at Kavli Institute
(co-supervised by Christian Doeller)
Transfer of learning between spatial and non-spatial domains
Visiting PhD Student
Computational models of memory-guided fictive planning
Research Assistant
Cognitive computational models of cognitive maps
RESEARCH
EPISODIC MEMORY
We investigate how people use past experience to make decisions, plan for the future, and imagine potential scenarios
USING COGNITIVE MAPS IN MEMORY & DECISION-MAKING
We build on the Nobel Prize winning discovery of spatially modulated neurons in the hippocampal formation to investigate how such neural computations can inform memory and decision-making in other domains
PERSPECTIVE-TAKING IN SOCIAL AND SPATIAL COGNITION
We study how ‘map-like’ coding of decision variables may inform learning by providing coordinates and boundaries that can be translated between different frames of reference