Arne Ekstrom

Interim Department Head, Department of Psychology

University of Arizona

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Professor, Cognition & Neural Systems

Professor, Evelyn McKnight Brain Institute

Research Interests:

Spatial navigation as a fundamental aspect of everyday life, yet something that declines in Alzheimer’s disease and other neurological conditions like stroke.
Employment of techniques like high-resolution functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), encephalography (EEG), and patient work to understand the neural mechanisms underlying spatial memories.
Inter-disciplinary research with foundations in computer science (via virtual reality and neural networks), geographical science, cognitive science, linguistics, neurology, neurosurgery, and others.