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Event type:

In person

Date & time:

03 Oct 2017, 13:00 – 14:00

Experimental Psychology Seminar - Spatial Navigation in neurodegenerative lesion models

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03 Oct 2017, 13:00 – 14:00

United Kingdom

Speaker: Michael Hornberger, University of East Anglia

In my talk I will present data showing how neurodegenerative lesion models (Alzheimer’s Disease, Frontotemporal Dementia) can be employed for the investigation of spatial navigation processes in the human brain. More specifically, I will show recent data showing how neurodegenerative syndromes and their prodromal forms show different allocentric and egocentric navigation patterns and how this relates to the underlying atrophy in these patients. I will discuss how the results inform better diagnosis and treatment of those patients and also theoretical models of spatial navigation.