Thackery Brown
@thackerybrown.bsky.social
Cognitive Neuroscientist interested in memory, emotion, and decision-making and their intersection in spatial navigation
https://maplab.gatech.edu/
navsci.gatech.edu
https://maplab.gatech.edu/
navsci.gatech.edu
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🚨 Our latest preprint:
A new tool to provide assessments of experience of the built environment: the NDIX.
This has been now deployed in 4 studies, being written up.
Here is the methods preprint with a starcast of co-authors:
A new tool to provide assessments of experience of the built environment: the NDIX.
This has been now deployed in 4 studies, being written up.
Here is the methods preprint with a starcast of co-authors:
The NeuroDesign/NeuroArchitecture Index (NDIX): Development of a method to evaluate the impact of the built environment on health, cognitive performance, and wellbeing: https://osf.io/8369k
October 13, 2025 at 9:03 AM
🚨 Our latest preprint:
A new tool to provide assessments of experience of the built environment: the NDIX.
This has been now deployed in 4 studies, being written up.
Here is the methods preprint with a starcast of co-authors:
A new tool to provide assessments of experience of the built environment: the NDIX.
This has been now deployed in 4 studies, being written up.
Here is the methods preprint with a starcast of co-authors:
The CRaNE center is now on Bluesky, with a new collab pub to share! Please follow for news of our members' science and our conferences and workshops!
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New collaborative publication between GT and Emory CRaNE members - introducing the NARA and a new open-source virtual city environment for assessing configural spatial memory, led by Yasmine Bassil, M. Borich
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Formation of allocentric representations after exposure to a novel, naturalistic, city-like, virtual reality environment
During human spatial navigation, individuals transform visuospatial information between egocentric (i.e., first-person, viewer-dependent, body-centere…
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October 10, 2025 at 11:14 PM
The CRaNE center is now on Bluesky, with a new collab pub to share! Please follow for news of our members' science and our conferences and workshops!
@tammyish.bsky.social @shiyiliang.bsky.social @paulinamaxim.bsky.social @gtsciences.bsky.social @gt-neuro.bsky.social
@tammyish.bsky.social @shiyiliang.bsky.social @paulinamaxim.bsky.social @gtsciences.bsky.social @gt-neuro.bsky.social
In today's episode of "my colleagues are awesome" @tammyish.bsky.social
October 2, 2025 at 8:57 PM
In today's episode of "my colleagues are awesome" @tammyish.bsky.social
Going to ANFA? Check out Simin's talk on our research into how the built environment shapes memory through curiosity. I'm proud of her for the special recognition she's received!
September 16, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Going to ANFA? Check out Simin's talk on our research into how the built environment shapes memory through curiosity. I'm proud of her for the special recognition she's received!
It was an honor to get to present at the NTNU last week. And for those who are curious, Trondheim is a gorgeous city
September 15, 2025 at 10:18 PM
It was an honor to get to present at the NTNU last week. And for those who are curious, Trondheim is a gorgeous city
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🧠🎵 OUR NEW PREPRINT: Familiar melodies hijack your brain's learning networks—literally rewiring visual sequence processing from struggle mode to flow state.
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🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Music Scaffolds Visual Statistical Sequence Learning Through Network-Level Reorganization in the Brain
Statistical learning—the ability to extract patterns from noisy continuous experiences—is fundamental to human cognition. Yet, how contextual factors shape this process remains poorly understood. Musi...
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August 12, 2025 at 7:53 PM
🧠🎵 OUR NEW PREPRINT: Familiar melodies hijack your brain's learning networks—literally rewiring visual sequence processing from struggle mode to flow state.
@thackerybrown.bsky.social
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@thackerybrown.bsky.social
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Abby enjoys grant writing more than me
May 23, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Abby enjoys grant writing more than me
With another round of amazing seniors departing GT, they bring more tears to my eyes
April 24, 2025 at 8:02 PM
With another round of amazing seniors departing GT, they bring more tears to my eyes
Word on the street is there were 20,000 people on the ground in Atlanta today
April 6, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Word on the street is there were 20,000 people on the ground in Atlanta today
#cns2025 come see our posters from the MAP Lab!
Sunday 5-7pm, C4 - Yiren Ren presents one of her recent studies on how music context signals influence event memory segmentation and learning
Tuesday 8-10am, F2 - Paulina Maxim presents data from young+older adult navigators on shortcut navigation
Sunday 5-7pm, C4 - Yiren Ren presents one of her recent studies on how music context signals influence event memory segmentation and learning
Tuesday 8-10am, F2 - Paulina Maxim presents data from young+older adult navigators on shortcut navigation
March 30, 2025 at 2:00 AM
#cns2025 come see our posters from the MAP Lab!
Sunday 5-7pm, C4 - Yiren Ren presents one of her recent studies on how music context signals influence event memory segmentation and learning
Tuesday 8-10am, F2 - Paulina Maxim presents data from young+older adult navigators on shortcut navigation
Sunday 5-7pm, C4 - Yiren Ren presents one of her recent studies on how music context signals influence event memory segmentation and learning
Tuesday 8-10am, F2 - Paulina Maxim presents data from young+older adult navigators on shortcut navigation
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New article out! It's a collaboration in the journal Music Perception where we show that metric emphasis influences what listens hear as tonic/stable in pop music loops:
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March 15, 2025 at 12:45 AM
New article out! It's a collaboration in the journal Music Perception where we show that metric emphasis influences what listens hear as tonic/stable in pop music loops:
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Excellent work led by @green951.bsky.social showing how human retrosplenial cortex integrates landmarks and self-motion cues during spatial navigation!
How does the brain unify various spatial cues to form coherent spatial representations? Our latest paper shows that RSC contains cue-independent spatial representations in terms of representational similarity during spatial navigation. #7tmri #WolbersLab
doi.org/10.1162/imag...
doi.org/10.1162/imag...
Representational Similarity Analysis Reveals Cue-independent Spatial Representations for Landmarks and Self-motion Cues in Human Retrosplenial Cortex
Abstract. It is a fundamental question in the spatial navigation literature how different spatial cues are unified to form a coherent spatial map of the space. Landmarks and self-motion cues are two m...
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March 10, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Excellent work led by @green951.bsky.social showing how human retrosplenial cortex integrates landmarks and self-motion cues during spatial navigation!
Great opportunity to work with a legendary mentor
The official link to apply for the postdoc position in my lab is live. Please pass it along! utaustin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UTstaff/job/...
March 8, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Great opportunity to work with a legendary mentor
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The official link to apply for the postdoc position in my lab is live. Please pass it along! utaustin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UTstaff/job/...
March 8, 2025 at 3:10 PM
The official link to apply for the postdoc position in my lab is live. Please pass it along! utaustin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UTstaff/job/...
Our 3 newest centers, CRaNE, CHART, and CoCo are a smash hit at the STEAM outreach event! Who knew science was cool!? @gtresearchnews.bsky.social @gt-neuro.bsky.social
March 8, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Our 3 newest centers, CRaNE, CHART, and CoCo are a smash hit at the STEAM outreach event! Who knew science was cool!? @gtresearchnews.bsky.social @gt-neuro.bsky.social
Please RT - join us in Atlanta May 17-18 for the Conference for Research and Education in Navigation! Feat. navigation + space-related research (from human and animal expt. models to architectural design, robotics, and artificial agent memory and behavior)
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February 17, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Please RT - join us in Atlanta May 17-18 for the Conference for Research and Education in Navigation! Feat. navigation + space-related research (from human and animal expt. models to architectural design, robotics, and artificial agent memory and behavior)
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First post and first paper of the year! We show that semantic memory space becomes denser with age. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... .
February 13, 2025 at 7:42 PM
First post and first paper of the year! We show that semantic memory space becomes denser with age. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... .