SCANN Lab

The SCANN Lab is proud to announce that Jeffrey Kunath has been awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship! Starting in the Fall, he will be pursuing graduate studies in Hispanic Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The SCANN Lab is super proud of his work and is cheering him on as he gears ...

The SCANN Lab welcomes two more members to the Master’s thesis defense club! Ashish Sahoo defended his thesis “Temporal Divisions: Segmenting Space through Time”. Ece Yuksel defended her thesis “Navigating the Metaverse: The Relation Between Scale and Expertise in Spatial Knowledge of Immersive and Desktop Virtual Reality”.  See posters about their work here. Congratulations, Ashish and Ece!! Read ...

The SCANN Lab is proud to announce that Eliany Perez has been awarded the Scientific Research Network on Decision Neuroscience and Aging (SRNDNA) 2024 Pilot Grant for her proposal “Exploring Risk Tolerance and Decision-Making Across Contexts: Implications for Healthy Cognitive Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease”. See the details here. Also, check out her website where she shares ...

We are presenting at SIDIC and Psychonomics in San Francisco this year! Below is the schedule for our Psychonomics presentations. Click here to see all of our presentations. Read more "SCANN Lab takes on San Francisco"

Eliany Perez becomes the first official SCANN Lab member to defend her Master’s thesis. Her thesis (accepted as a Stage 1 registered report already) examines the role of risk tolerance in human navigation behavior.   Congrats, Eliany!! Read more "Eliany Perez defends her Master’s Thesis"

Some holiday cheer to spread from the SCANN Lab! Dr. Adam Barnas has been awarded the Florida Department of Health Ed & Ethel Moore post-doctoral fellowship, mentored by Dr. Steven Weisberg, Dr. Natalie Ebner, and Dr. Dawn Bowers!! This two-year fellowship will fund Adam to work on research projects involving spatial and object visual attention ...

Check out this article written about new research that is being conducted in our lab! “Newly Funded Psychology Research Looks to Improve Alzheimer’s Navigation Impairment” Read more "New research on Alzheimer’s navigation impairment"

Eliany Perez helped lead an amazing Brain Awareness Week! See details in the article linked here. Read more "UF neuroscience students engage public schools in Brain Awareness Week activities"

Eliany has been awarded the Goldman Spring Scholarship! She will be working on a project examining the distinction between the success of navigation and shifts in navigational strategy as people age. This is a collaborative effort alongside Dr. Natalie Ebner and Dr. Dawn Bowers to advance our knowledge of the neural underpinnings of spatial strategy ...

The SCANN Lab is officially externally funded! We are thrilled and humbled to have received funding from several different sources over the past few months. And in case you’re wondering – yes, we’re hiring.   In August 2020, Dr. Weisberg received an R21 from the NINDS with Dr. Arne Ekstrom at the University of Arizona. The grant funds work ...

June 2020: Dr. Weisberg (in collaboration with Geoff Aguirre) present the lab’s first poster at VSS. Read more "The Lab’s First Poster at VSS"