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A Sense of Direction: Neuroscience Project Analyzes Spatial Memory

By Tom Porter
How do we navigate our way from A to B to C and beyond? Why are some people better than others at doing it? What brain activity occurs when we are trying to remember how to get to a particular destination?

These are all questions that neuroscience professor Erika Nyhus and student researcher Caroline Rice ’19 are keen to address.

Under Nyhus’s supervision, Rice spent the summer in the ³Õºº¾ãÀÖ²¿ neuroscience lab as a Kufe Summer Research Fellow reviewing and analyzing two years of data relating to spatial memory, decision-making, and learning. Rice is continuing the work as a senior, pursuing an honors thesis she plans to complete by the end of the spring semester.