Denis Lan
phd student in psychology @ oxford uni, summerfield & hunt labs
- My first PhD paper - with @lhuntneuro.bsky.social and @summerfieldlab.bsky.social - is now out in @plosbiology.org! We ask: how do humans (and deep neural networks) navigate flexibly even in unfamiliar environments, such as a new city? Link: plos.io/45uSwNm 🧵 (1/6)
- We hypothesised that flexible navigation requires a mix of strategies, involving either a spatial sense of direction (‘vectors’) or associative knowledge between landmarks (‘transitions’). We designed a task to help dissociate between strategies while humans navigated unfamiliar grid worlds. (2/6)
