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The cognitive Cerebellum| old_uid | 15808 |
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| title | The cognitive Cerebellum |
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| start_date | 2018/04/10 |
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| schedule | 16h-17h |
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| online | no |
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| summary | The Rondi-Reig lab studies the neural bases of memory from a spatial cognition perspective. As we navigate into the world, our brain forms a neural representation of space, travelled distances and followed directions. This neural representation is stable enough to allow efficient navigation in a known environment and flexible enough to be updated when exploring a new place. Yet, we ignore what mechanisms subtend such properties.
Her group already demonstrated the influence of the cerebellum in shaping goal-directed navigation and the hippocampal spatial activity. They posit that the cerebellum acts as a gate filtering sensory signals to stabilize or update our neural representation of space during navigation. To this end, they take a translational multi-scale approach: using brain imaging in humans and electrophysiology recordings in mice, they assess the activity of cerebro-cerebellar networks during real or virtual navigation tasks.
This work contributes to better understand how alterations in sensori-motor processing impact cognitive functions. This question is of particular interest for cognitive disorders associated with sensory integration or memory deficits (i.e Autism, Alzheimer). |
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| responsibles | Oliviero |
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