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We attended the Naturalistic Neuroscience Conference 2026 at University of Bonn!

Iris, Philipp, and David presented posters on their ongoing research and Lukas gave a talk on “Theta-phase locking of human neurons during the encoding and retrieval of spatial memories.” We particularly enjoyed the talks by Neil Burgess and Matthias Stangl on neural mechanisms of spatial navigation in rodents and humans.

Tom Donoghue from the University of Manchester visited us in Bonn and gave a talk on his work related to place cells, splitter cells, and other types of functional tuning in the human medial temporal lobe. It was great having you, Tom, and your presentation sparked a lot of discussions!

We’re extremely happy and grateful to be part of the third funding period of the Collaborative Research Center 1315!

We’re very happy to have you back in the lab, Rashi!

Lukas gave a public talk at the community science art project “Collective Neurogenesis” in Bonn, organized by Paula Urrutia, Diana Bungard, and the German Research Foundation (DFG). His talk focused on grid cells and was entitled “Wie das Gehirn Räume vermisst: Die geheimnisvollen Gitterzellen.”

We’re happy to have you in the lab, Ergün!

Lukas gave a talk on “Investigating cognitive maps using human single-unit recordings” in the Neuropsychology Talk series at Ruhr University Bochum.

We attended the BonnBrain conference 2026! This was a fantastic conference with keynotes by Edvard Moser (who presented fascinating results on theta-sweeps in grid cells), Cori Bargmann, Rosa Paolicelli, Maude Baldwin, and Zachary Knight. We also very much enjoyed Dmitriy Aronov’s talk on episodic memory processes in food-caching birds. David presented his findings on social distance coding from single-unit recordings in epilepsy patients.

We are delighted to welcome Sri Shanmuka Sai Kotcharlakota to the Bonn Spatial Memory Lab!

The Bonn Spatial Memory Lab is pleased to welcome Lorenz Jaek as a new member of the lab!