The lab is officially up & running at Duke! 🥳

Huge thanks to @dukemedschool.bsky.social for the amazing space, & to our lab team for getting everything installed & operational within a month 😅

Excited for what’s ahead!

Woah, huge congrats to Jay (Neurosurgery) and Sabrina (Head & Neck Surgery), former PhD students and lab members, on matching at Stanford! 🎉 What are the odds?! 🤯Stanford is incredibly lucky to have these two brilliant minds! 👏

7/ Participants wore eye-tracking headsets 👀. When walking right-turn-only paths, they made more rightward eye movements, and leftward for left-turn paths. Even during imagination, their eyes still followed a similar pattern! 🤯⬅️➡️

6/ The hippocampus, more than nearby regions, showed shared theta activity between real and imagined walking, but not control trials suggesting 🧠 may be replaying the journey

4/ Take a look at the theta bouts (larger 🧠 waves) right before turns. The timing is striking! 👀

3/ Theta 🧠 activity increased in bouts right before turns. And Participant 2? That extra turn they took- theta increased there too!

2/ While they walked, hippocampal activity along with motion capture & eye-tracking were recorded.

1/ Participants memorized two paths, one with only rightward turns, & one with leftward turns, & walked them from memory. Everyone learned them well, but look at Participant 2…they consistently added an extra turn.

Here is a short video of Adam describing what it was like for him after the trial 👇

Here is a short video of Adam describing what it was like before the trial👇

Here is the flyer with more info

Also we are hiring a research assistant & recruiting new grad students at Duke!