Investigating the cognitive neuroscience of learning, memory, and decision-making
PEOPLE
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.
DÖRTE KUHRT
PhD Student at Kavli Institute
(co-supervised by Christian Doeller)
Transfer of learning between spatial and non-spatial domains
IGNACIO POLTI
PhD Student at Kavli Institute
(co-supervised by Christian Doeller)
Role of temporal coding in human episodic and spatial memory
MARIACHIARA
ESPOSITO
Predoctoral Researcher
Boundary and reference point use in memory-guided decision making
MARTA RODRIGUEZ ARAMENDIA
Predoctoral Researcher
Relating social and spatial anchoring biases
ALEIX ALCACER SALES
LUBNA ABDUL PARVEEN
The lab currently has two 2-yr postdoc openings to investigate interactions between human long-term memory processes and social cognition or creativity. Please send a message to kaplan@uji.es for more details about these openings or other opportunities in the lab.
Visiting PhD Student
Neuroscience MSc Student
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 LEARNING & 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 learning 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