How Arne ended up studying psychology and neuroscience

Arne's route to a PhD recording single-cells in humans (via political activism in Central America)

The state of using VR-like tasks in the early 2000s

The status of spatial navigation research in the early 2000s

Collecting data from unusual populations

Why record from amygdala for a spatial navigation task?

Combining memory and navigation in hippocampus

Should I use one method or many?

A book or paper more people should read

Something Arne wishes he'd learnt sooner

Advice for PhD students/postdocs

Arne Ekstrom is a professor of psychology at the University of Arizona, where he studies spatial navigation and memory. We talk about how he got into psychology, his unusual path to getting a PhD, his work on using single-cells recordings from people, the relationship between memory and spatial navigation, why he uses multiple methods, and much more. Support the show: <a href="https://geni.us/bjks-patreon">https://geni.us/bjks-patreon</a> Timestamps 0:00:00: How Arne ended up studying psychology and neuroscience 0:06:23: Arne's route to a PhD recording single-cells in humans (via political activism in Central America) 0:20:18: The state of using VR-like tasks in the early 2000s 0:24:32: The status of spatial navigation research in the early 2000s 0:29:45: Collecting data from unusual populations 0:33:59: Why record from amygdala for a spatial navigation task? 0:41:35: Combining memory and navigation in hippocampus 1:02:04: Should I use one method or many? 1:11:29: A book or paper more people should read 1:13:51: Something Arne wishes he'd learnt sooner 1:14:51: Advice for PhD students/postdocs Podcast links<ul><li>Website: <a href="https://geni.us/bjks-pod">https://geni.us/bjks-pod</a></li><li>Twitter: <a href="https://geni.us/bjks-pod-twt">https://geni.us/bjks-pod-twt</a></li></ul>Arne's links<ul><li>Website: <a href="https://geni.us/ekstrom-web">https://geni.us/ekstrom-web</a></li><li>Google Scholar: <a href="https://geni.us/ekstrom-scholar">https://geni.us/ekstrom-scholar</a></li></ul>Ben's links<ul><li>Website: <a href="https://geni.us/bjks-web">https://geni.us/bjks-web</a></li><li>Google Scholar: <a href="https://geni.us/bjks-scholar">https://geni.us/bjks-scholar</a></li><li>Twitter: <a href="https://geni.us/bjks-twt">https://geni.us/bjks-twt</a></li></ul> References &amp; links Episode with Lynn Nadel: <a href="https://geni.us/bjks-nadel">https://geni.us/bjks-nadel</a> Episode with Nanthia Suthana: <a href="https://geni.us/bjks-suthana">https://geni.us/bjks-suthana</a> Episode with Nikolai Axmacher: <a href="https://geni.us/bjks-axmacher">https://geni.us/bjks-axmacher</a> Episode with Nachum Ulanovsky: <a href="https://geni.us/bjks-ulanovsky">https://geni.us/bjks-ulanovsky</a> Argyropoulos ... &amp; Butler (2019). Network-wide abnormalities explain memory variability in hippocampal amnesia. Elife. Ekstrom, .. &amp; Fried (2003). Cellular networks underlying human spatial navigation. Nature. Ekstrom ... &amp; Kahana (2005). Human hippocampal theta activity during virtual navigation. Hippocampus. Ekstrom ... &amp; Bookheimer (2009). Correlation between BOLD fMRI and theta-band local field potentials in the human hippocampal area. J neurophys. Ekstrom ... &amp; Starrett (2017). Interacting networks of brain regions underlie human spatial navigation: a review and novel synthesis of the literature. J neurophys. Ekstrom &amp; Ranganath (2018). Space, time, and episodic memory: The hippocampus is all over the cognitive map. Hippocampus. Hassabis ... &amp; Maguire (2009). Decoding neuronal ensembles in the human hippocampus. Current Biology. Iaria &amp; Burles (2016). Developmental topographical disorientation. TiCS. Kunz ... &amp; Axmacher (2015). Reduced grid-cell–like representations in adults at genetic risk for Alzheimer’s disease. Science. Logothetis ... &amp; Oeltermann (2001). Neurophysiological investigation of the basis of the fMRI signal. Nature. Watrous ... &amp; Ekstrom (2013). Frequency-specific network connectivity increases underlie accurate spatiotemporal memory retrieval. Nat Neuro. Zhang &amp; Ekstrom (2013). Human neural systems underlying rigid and flexible forms of allocentric spatial representation. Human brain mapping.

Arne Ekstrom is a professor of psychology at the University of Arizona, where he studies spatial navigation and memory. We talk about how he got into psychology, his unusual path to getting a PhD, his work on using single-cells recordings from people, the relationship between memory and spatial navigation, why he uses multiple methods, and much more.Support the show: https://geni.us/bjks-patreonTimestamps0:00:00: How Arne ended up studying psychology and neuroscience0:06:23: Arne's route to a...

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97. Arne Ekstrom: Spatial navigation, memory, and invasive recordings in humans