Arne Ekstrom

Interim Department Head

Professor, Cognition & Neural Systems

Professor, Evelyn McKnight Brain Institute

Psychology 312B (office)
Psychology 215 A-C, 251, & 270 (labs)

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Research Interests:

Spatial navigation as a fundamental aspect of everyday life, yet something that declines in Alzheimer’s disease and other neurological conditions like stroke.
Employment of techniques like high-resolution functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), encephalography (EEG), and patient work to understand the neural mechanisms underlying spatial memories.
Inter-disciplinary research with foundations in computer science (via virtual reality and neural networks), geographical science, cognitive science, linguistics, neurology, neurosurgery, and others.

Updated: 07/05/22

Selected Publications:

Kyle C.T., Stokes J.D., Lieberman J., Hassan A.S., Ekstrom A.D. (2015). Successful retrieval of competing spatial environments in humans involves hippocampal pattern separation mechanisms. eLife. 27, e10499. PMID: 26613414.
Arnold AE., Iaria G., and Ekstrom A.D. (2016). Mental simulation of routes during navigation involves adaptive temporal compression. Cognition. 157: 14-23. PMID: 27568586.
Vass L.K., Copara M.S., Seyal M. Shahlie, K., Tomaszewski-Farias S., Shen P., Ekstrom A.D. (2016). Oscillations go the distance: Low frequency human hippocampal oscillations code spatial distance in the absence of sensory cues during teleportation. Neuron. 89: 1-7. PMID: 26924436.
Ekstrom A.D., Huffman D., and Starrett M.J. (in press). Interacting networks of brain regions underlie human spatial navigation: A review and novel synthesis of the literature. Journal of Neurophysiology.

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Updated: 08/23/24