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Paul Hill
@paulhill.bsky.social
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Assistant Research Professor at the University of Arizona. Interested in the cognitive neuroscience of memory, spatial navigation, and cognitive aging.
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Paul Hill @paulhill.bsky.social · May 17
In a recent review, @adekstreme.bsky.social and I revisit how spatial navigation breaks down in aging and early Alzheimer’s disease - and why it’s not just about the brain.

doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

#SpatialNavigation #AgingBrain #EmbodiedCognition #AlzheimerResearch
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Alexander Mathis @trackingskills.bsky.social · 16d
Understanding behavior requires datasets that capture humans while carrying out complex tasks. The kitchen is an excellent environment for assessing human motor and cognitive function, as many complex actions are naturally exhibited in kitchens from chopping to 🧽!

arxiv.org/abs/2506.01608
EPFL-Smart-Kitchen-30: Densely annotated cooking dataset with 3D kinematics to challenge video and language models
Understanding behavior requires datasets that capture humans while carrying out complex tasks. The kitchen is an excellent environment for assessing human motor and cognitive function, as many complex...
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Sabina Srokova @sabina-srokova.bsky.social · 16d
New paper alert! 🚨 We show that age-related neural dedifferentiation in scene-selective cortex is tied to changes in eye movements. Using simultaneous fMRI + eye-tracking, we found that younger adults’ fixations covary with scene specificity, but this link weakens with age.

Link in post below 👇
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Abhilasha Joshi, PhD @rhythmicspikes.bsky.social · 21d
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🚨 New preprint! 🚨

Excited and proud (& a little nervous 😅) to share our latest work on the importance of #theta-timescale spiking during #locomotion in #learning. If you care about how organisms learn, buckle up. 🧵👇

📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
💻 code + data 🔗 below 🤩

#neuroskyence
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Seb Walsh @sebwalsh.bsky.social · 26d
Out of 800+ studies on blood-based biomarkers for Alzheimer's, not a single one measured actual changes in patient outcomes.

doi.org/10.1136/bmj-...
Evidence gap in blood biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease
Willem van Gool and colleagues argue that moves to use blood biomarkers in clinical practice or population screening are inappropriate without evidence on outcomes important to patients and carers T...
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Silvia Anderle @silvia-anderle.bsky.social · Aug 5
Delighted to share our latest review in Nature Reviews Neuroscience!
We examine the growing evidence that vascular dysfunction plays a key role in cognitive decline in ageing and dementia, and argue that preserving/restoring CBF should be central to future therapies.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The vascular contribution to cognitive decline in ageing and dementia - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Growing evidence suggests that reduced cerebral blood flow contributes to cognitive decline in ageing and dementia. Attwell and colleagues discuss the underlying mechanisms and functional consequences...
www.nature.com
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Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · Jul 8
🚨 New paper in Journal of Vision!
We show that scene affordances—what you can do in a space—shape how we perceive and categorize scenes. This shapes your similarity preferences, predicts your categorization false alarms, and even alters neural representations. 🧵👇
🔗 doi.org/10.1167/jov....
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Function over form: The temporal evolution of affordance-based scene categorization | JOV | ARVO Journals
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Sabina Srokova @sabina-srokova.bsky.social · Jul 7
JNeurosci’s Early career researcher (ECR) Advisory Board just opened a call for applications (due July 18 at 5pm ET). Join our team for a unique opportunity to serve the ECR community and advocate for ECR needs in scientific publishing: www.jneurosci.org/content/ecr-...
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Functional Neuroimaging of Memory Lab @fnim-lab.bsky.social · Jun 30
New Paper Alert! de Chastelaine et al found that young adults are able to employ 'retrieval gating' to allow mnemonic content to be aligned with a retrieval goal, but older adults failed to do this even when their memory was boosted to match young adults! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Hugo Spiers @hugospiers.bsky.social · Jun 17
Representation of locomotive action affordances in human behavior, brains, and deep neural networks

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Paul Hill @paulhill.bsky.social · May 17
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Cortex Special Issue honoring Dr. Francesca Frassinetti: From Bodies to Spaces: a neurocognitive/neuropsychological perspective on body-space interactions
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Paul Hill @paulhill.bsky.social · May 17
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By integrating physical mobility and sensorimotor function into models of spatial navigation, we hope to broaden the scope of how navigation is studied, assessed, and ultimately used to detect preclinical changes in Alzheimer’s disease.
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Paul Hill @paulhill.bsky.social · May 17
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We propose that spatial navigation offers a useful lens into early cognitive-motor changes in aging, shaped by neuromodulatory and multisensory processes that may decline before overt brain pathology.
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Paul Hill @paulhill.bsky.social · May 17
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Rather than focusing solely on hippocampal or entorhinal dysfunction, we highlight how degraded sensorimotor inputs - like balance, gait, and vestibular function - play a crucial but often overlooked role.
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Paul Hill @paulhill.bsky.social · May 17
In a recent review, @adekstreme.bsky.social and I revisit how spatial navigation breaks down in aging and early Alzheimer’s disease - and why it’s not just about the brain.

doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

#SpatialNavigation #AgingBrain #EmbodiedCognition #AlzheimerResearch
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Louis Renoult @renoultlouis.bsky.social · May 6
Please share; My lab at @psychologyuea.bsky.social @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social is recruiting a post-doc for a cognitive neuroscience memory project. It is a 3-year post, with a proposed start date of 8th September. Application deadline is 15th of June.

vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/15...
Senior Research Associate (RA2312) in University of East Anglia | UEA
View details and apply for this Senior Research Associate (RA2312) vacancy in University of East Anglia. School of Psychology Faculty of Social Sciences Senior Research Associate Ref: RA...
vacancies.uea.ac.uk
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Sabina Srokova @sabina-srokova.bsky.social · Apr 15
It is important now more than ever for scientists to share their work with the general public. I am pleased to have contributed to investNScience’s campaign which they are currently running across numerous social media platforms. It is a great initiative that makes science more relevant to everyone.
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investNscience @investnscience.bsky.social · Apr 15
Flagging warning signs of dementia, @sabina-srokova.bsky.social studies memory and brain changes in aging.

#academicsky #neurosky #aging #dementia #Alzheimers #investinscience
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Sabina Srokova @sabina-srokova.bsky.social · Mar 30
Are you attending #CNS2025 ? If so, then you should stop by my poster on Tuesday morning for a fun chat about fmri and spatial memory!!
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Hugo Spiers @hugospiers.bsky.social · Mar 5
www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
On the origin of memory neurons in the human hippocampus
The hippocampus is essential for episodic memory, yet its coding mechanism remains debated. In humans, two main theories have been proposed: one suggests that concept neurons represent specific elemen...
www.cell.com
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Audrey Duarte @audreyduarte.bsky.social · Feb 13
First post and first paper of the year! We show that semantic memory space becomes denser with age. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... .
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · Feb 2
The relationship between neural differentiation and exploratory eye movements in healthy young and older adults https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.30.635806v1
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Rosa Ritunnano @rritunnano.bsky.social · Dec 20
Instead of listing my publications, as the year draws to an end, I want to shine the spotlight on the commonplace assumption that productivity must always increase. Good research is disruptive and thinking time is central to high quality scholarship and necessary for disruptive research.
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Paul Hill @paulhill.bsky.social · Dec 15
Would like to be added if there is still room, thanks
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Paul Hill @paulhill.bsky.social · Nov 20
Would love to be added. I use VR and wearable sensors to study memory and navigation in aging and Alzheimer's disease
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Paul Hill @paulhill.bsky.social · Nov 20
In a new preprint, we show that age differences in navigation strategies are complex & not well explained by the traditional allocentric-egocentric dichotomy. One unexpected finding - young adults shifted towards more 'egocentric' strategies when navigating in immersive and ambulatory VR environment
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PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · Nov 20
Age differences in spatial navigation stem from a preference for familiar routes rather than impaired landmark-dependent strategies: http://osf.io/b7n6s/
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Paul Hill @paulhill.bsky.social · Nov 19
Look forward to reading this. This is something I have been thinking about in terms of age differences in navigation. Are older adults (on average) impaired at using a cognitive map to navigate, or do they simply prefer to exploit familiar and more certain routes?
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