Douglas Nitz's current research concerns how neural signals in cortex, subiculum, and hippocampus together form a distributed ‘cognitive map’ of location in the environment and the structure of available pathways within it. His background is in systems neuroscience as also applied to the problem of the control of rapid eye movement sleep, episodic memory, and motor control.
Key Research Areas:
Neural basis of spatial cognition and episodic memory, hippocampus, parietal cortex, premotor cortex.
