🚨The SCANN Lab @ UTA is hiring a postdoctoral researcher!🚨 Topics: 🧭 spatial navigation, 🧠 fMRI, 🎮 VR, 👵 cognitive aging. Start date: Nov 2025 (flexible). Salary: NIH levels. Details 👇

Ece Yuksel presented her poster “Age differences in spatial navigation across real and virtual worlds: A mixed-methods approach” at Psychonomic Society 2025, for which she was awarded the Graduate Travel Award. See all SCANN Lab Psychonomic posters here: https://t.co/WEfNo97Qmp

Ashish Sahoo, Poster II-080 on Friday @ 12pm Ashish presents a meta-analysis examining the correlation between HPC volume and nav/memory performance. The work-in-progress shows a weak relation, but also publication bias Ashish is on the job market and looking for post-docs!

Ece Yuksel, Poster I-073 on Thursday @ 6pm Ece presents a qual/quant study in which she asks younger and older adults about their actual navigation behavior (and combines this with their performance on Virtual Silcton.) Ece is on the job market and looking for post-docs!

Chengsi Yi, Poster I-069 on Thursday @ 6pm Chengsi presents work modeling navigation using Q-learning to determine how risk and cognition impact strategy choice. He also discusses an ongoing task based on the Dual Solution Paradigm, which gives navigators more range to explore

The SCANN Lab will be at @Psychonomic_Soc this week (except for @stevenmweisberg - he's stuck in Texas.) If you're there, connect with our awesome PhD students! And if you're NOT there, you can still follow our work. https://t.co/ZtNRSxVF1X More info in the Tweets below!

We are excited to announce that Dr. Steven Weisberg, was recently featured in The Dallas Morning News! Read the full article here:

Highly recommended!

Thanks, Anjan!

📰 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!

🚨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!

@ashnkrause 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:

🚨New paper alert🚨 https://t.co/kM2eJ7uPao This one's a bit different! Led by stellar PhD candidate @ashnkrause who has taught me more about social psychology than anyone else. First - a question: Is a ship a place?

@adamjbarnas @JeffreyKunath @Eliany_Perez_ @zachboogaart @magmophd @natalie_ebner @stevenmweisberg @UFPsychology @UF_CAMcenter @FixelInstitute @ScannLab 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!

A commentary in @NatureHumBehav 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... https://t.co/7wfcXKd1sx

Supporting Spatial Navigation with @stevenmweisberg from our CogNav Webinar Series is available to watch back at https://t.co/HnIlV6XpBe #CognitiveNavigation #SpatialNavigation #Wayfinding

Really grateful to be part of such an amazing team - @Eliany_Perez_ @yukselace @JeffreyKunath @adamjbarnas @chengsi_yi and Ashish Sahoo. Makes the work worth doing.