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Steven Weisberg

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Ass't Prof at UT Arlington | Cognitive Neuroscience / Spatial Navigation | Director: @SCANNLab | Husband and father | he/him | www.scannlab.org @scannlab.bsky.social #psychology #neuroscience #VR #navigation #academia #brain

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Steven Weisberg @stevenmweisberg.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
🚨 I’m recruiting PhD students for Fall 2027 at the SCANN Lab @ UT Arlington! 🧠🧭 One student can receive 2 years of NSF support for research on spatial learning + construction education. Also recruiting for our broader navigation/cog neuro work. Info: www.scannlab.org/join-us.html
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Psychonomic Society @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Congratulations to our 2026 Mid-Career Award Recipients! www.psychonomic.org/page/midcare...
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Psychonomic Society @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Congratulations to our 2026 Early Career Award Recipients! www.psychonomic.org/page/early_c...
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Psychonomic Society @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Stephan Lewandowsky has been named the recipient of the 2026 Clifford T. Morgan Distinguished Leadership Award. Congratulations Steve! www.psychonomic.org/page/2026Dis...
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SCANN Lab @scannlab.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
We are excited to share that our lab manager, Sara Harader, recently published a paper based on research she conducted as an undergraduate in Dr. Arne Ekstrom’s lab at the University of Arizona. Read more here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Angular path integration errors are greater for trajectories with full loop crossovers
Does crossing one’s path result in greater uncertainty in one’s internal sense of direction (path integration)? The present study addressed this issue using immersive virtual reality involving matc...
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Steven Weisberg @stevenmweisberg.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
It's an amazing day when I can hood two PhD students in the same day!! Congrats @eceyuksel.bsky.social and Ashish Sahoo! You won't be lost for much longer ;)
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Jonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
My colleagues LOVE my feedback on NIH grants
Word comment: Thou shalt have three aims. The number of aims to be had is three Not two, nor four. Three aims.
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Steven Weisberg @stevenmweisberg.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I’m incredibly honored to receive the Psychonomic Society Early Career Award! I’m deeply grateful to the mentors, trainees, colleagues, and collaborators who have shaped my work and made the science better at every stage. I’m excited to celebrate with the community at the Annual Meeting!
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Hugo Spiers @hugospiers.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Brenda Milner is a hero and 108!! She did a lot more than discover the hippocampus is linked to declarative memory, but that work is the most famous.
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Steven Weisberg @stevenmweisberg.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Simply one of the best navigation short films I've ever seen. - a unique #navigation story - personal, scientific, historical, poetic - encapsulating so much in the daily life of navigation in one short video. kottke.org/25/09/how-to...
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How to Navigate a City Without Street Addresses
Direcciones is a short documentary about how giving directions works in Costa Rica, where “a centralized system for street addresses does not exist”. Instead,
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SCANN Lab @scannlab.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
We are excited to share that another SCANN Lab member, Ece Yüksel, has successfully defended her dissertation! Congratulations on this milestone and thank you for your many contributions to SCANN Lab.
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SCANN Lab @scannlab.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
We are excited to share that Ashish Sahoo has successfully completed his dissertation defense. He has also been awarded with the UF Hipergator Early Career award and the Gerber BCN Psychology Research award for his outstanding work. We congratulate him on this significant achievement!
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Steven Weisberg @stevenmweisberg.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Excited to announce, with my collaborator Hunter Ball at @utaresearch.bsky.social, that we have received a new grant from the Hispanic-Serving Research Universities program ASCENDr. Our work will focus on military uses of GPS! www.uta.edu/news/news-re...
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UTA examines risks of GPS reliance in military
Psychology researchers to study how reliance on navigation technology affects military readiness
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SCANN Lab @scannlab.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
The SCANN Lab is officially extramurally funded at UTA! Dr. Weisberg and Dr. Hunter Ball, received a grant from the Alliance of Hispanic Serving Research Universities to study GPS-supported navigation and support leadership development through the ASCENDR Leadership Program.
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Steven Weisberg @stevenmweisberg.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
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SCANN Lab @scannlab.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Why do some people never get lost while others rely on GPS? A new review, written by @hugospiers.bsky.social and @emre-yavuz-21.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44... argues that navigation ability is shaped by both fixed factors (age, genetics) and modifiable ones (sleep, exercise, experience).
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Determinants of individual navigation ability - Nature Reviews Psychology
There is substantial variation across people in navigation ability, which is shaped by multiple factors. In this Review, Yavuz and Spiers organize these factors into lifetime, lifestyle and personal a...
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Michael J. Kane @michaeljkane.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Please share with colleagues: The new Psychonomics journal, Individual Differences in Cognition, is accepting submissions! Please send us your empirical, measurement, & stats-methods research in all areas of cognition, including lab, daily-life, & applied work. www.psychonomic.org/general/cust...
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Individual Differences in Cognition - Psychonomic Society
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Steven Weisberg @stevenmweisberg.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Parks and rec fans rejoice!
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SCANN Lab @scannlab.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Zoe Cronin, our first year PhD student at SCANN lab was recently interviewed by Dallas Morning News where she discusses a condition known as aphantasia and its relationship to spatial cognition. Read more on this here: www.msn.com/en-us/money/...
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SCANN Lab @scannlab.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Individuals with aphantasia have difficulty forming mental imagery, and with her future research, Zoe aims to develop more inclusive methods for teaching complex concepts to students.
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SCANN Lab @scannlab.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
They emphasize the importance of open science, standardizing navigation assessment methods, and focusing more on real-world challenges in navigation, particularly those experienced by older adults.
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SCANN Lab @scannlab.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
A recent book on navigation, “Challenges in Navigation Research”, includes a final chapter that was co-authored by Dr. Weisberg. In that chapter, the authors propose a framework for future research in the field. link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
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Arne Ekstrom @adekstreme.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Excited to announce our new paper in Trends in Cognitive Science (TICS) on the importance of naturalistic body movements and mobile immersive virtual reality to the study of cognition! Check it out! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Nora Newcombe @noranewcombe.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
This book has just been published, open access, edited by Ken Cheng and me. It contains multiple chapters originating in a wonderful Strungmann Forum held in Frankfurt around a year ago. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Challenges in Navigation Research
This open access book explores navigation across species using a multidisciplinary approach to address challenges in research and clinical applications.
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SCANN Lab @scannlab.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
In their study, Koc et al. looked at how scene selective brain regions (PPA, OPA, RSC) change their activity depending on behavioral goals. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Task-modulated neural responses in scene-selective regions of the human brain
The study of scene perception is crucial to the understanding of how one interprets and interacts with their environment, and how the environment impa…
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SCANN Lab @scannlab.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
They showed that contextual changes (such as adding novel wall, ceiling and floor colors and textures) led to greater overestimation of distance judgments, followed by global geometric changes, while local geometric changes had weaker effects.
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Steven Weisberg @stevenmweisberg.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
We’re excited to share that members of the SCANN Lab will be presenting two posters (as part of the Sketchpad Series!) at #CNS2026! Previews are below and here: scannlab.org/cns-2026 Drop by and say hello if you’re at CNS! #CognitiveNeuroscience #SpatialNavigation #Aging #Memory #Aphantasia
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Hugo Spiers @hugospiers.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
From @stevenmweisberg.bsky.social's lab: Deep learning approaches to map individual differences in macroscopic neural structure with variations in spatial navigation behavior www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Deep learning approaches to map individual differences in macroscopic neural structure with variations in spatial navigation behavior
Understanding the association between structural properties of the human brain and individual differences in behavior is an ongoing endeavor, challeng…
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Steven Weisberg @stevenmweisberg.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Our paper (with Ashish Sahoo, who is on the job market for post-docs!), now published in Neuropsychologia, used AI approaches to relate navigation ability to hippocampal structure. Did it work? News coverage: www.uta.edu/news/news-re... Publication: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41443585/
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Deep learning approaches to map individual differences in macroscopic neural structure with variations in spatial navigation behavior - PubMed
Understanding the association between structural properties of the human brain and individual differences in behavior is an ongoing endeavor, challenged by the brain's complexity. Past approaches, limited by simplistic neural structure measures like brain volume or cortical thickness, have given way …
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Steven Weisberg @stevenmweisberg.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
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SCANN Lab @scannlab.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Dr. Weisberg just went on his first professional podcast! Tune in to hear about how people navigate, why GPS can help OR hurt, and what aging teaches us about flexibility and strategy. Give it a listen! open.spotify.com/episode/0Z5o... And reach out! We'd love to hear what you think.
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How Humans Find Their Way: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Navigation
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SCANN Lab @scannlab.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
This study shows leisure activities support domain-specific protection against cognitive decline in visual attention and memory beyond job type & education. Given the role of these processes in spatial navigation, such activities might preserve navigational abilities with aging.
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SCANN Lab @scannlab.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
New findings suggest memory framing effects are more complex than previously thought and may not require emotional arousal: psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...
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SCANN Lab @scannlab.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Ece Yuksel presented her poster “Age differences in spatial navigation across real and virtual worlds: A mixed-methods approach” at Psychonomic Society 2025, for which she was awarded the Graduate Travel Award. See all SCANN Lab Psychonomic posters here: scannlab.org/psynom-2025
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SCANN Lab @scannlab.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
We are now spread across three institutions, but the SCANN LAN is now reunited at @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social @eceyuksel.bsky.social @adamjbarnas.com @chengsiy.bsky.social
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SCANN Lab @scannlab.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
The SCANN Lab will be at @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social this week (except for @stevenmweisberg.bsky.social - he's stuck in Texas.) If you're there, connect with our awesome PhD students! And if you're NOT there, you can still follow our work. www.scannlab.org/psynom-2025
Postcard with information about three presenters from the SCANN Lab and information about their poster session. More information in the subsequent posts about each one.
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SCANN Lab @scannlab.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
We are excited to announce that Dr. Steven Weisberg, was recently featured in The Dallas Morning News! Read the full article here: www.dallasnews.com/news/2025/10...
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New Texas initiative could shape the future of dementia research, scientists say
Researchers hope the proposed institute will expedite scientific discoveries and AI innovation.
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Nora Newcombe @noranewcombe.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
One of the folks involved is @stevenmweisberg.bsky.social www.dallasnews.com/news/2025/10...
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New Texas initiative could shape the future of dementia research, scientists say
Researchers hope the proposed institute will expedite scientific discoveries and AI innovation.
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Steven Weisberg @stevenmweisberg.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
🎓 PhD Opening Join our NSF project on immersive, multi-user virtual field trips for STEM learning + spatial communication. UT Arlington • 2-yr funded • Fall 2026 🔗 NSF #2336507 → www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/... 🔗 SCANN Lab → www.scannlab.org/join-us #PhDposition #STEMeducation #VirtualReality #NSF
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NSF Award Search: Award # 2336507
Collaborative Research: iVisit: Situated Learning Experiences through Web-based Virtual Field Trips
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Steven Weisberg @stevenmweisberg.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Hi! Official job ad posted here - for full consideration, please apply: apply.interfolio.com/175152
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Steven Weisberg @stevenmweisberg.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
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Steven Weisberg @stevenmweisberg.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
🚨The SCANN Lab @ UTA is hiring a postdoctoral researcher!🚨 Topics: 🧭 spatial navigation, 🧠 fMRI, 🎮 VR, 👵 cognitive aging. Start date: Nov 2025 (flexible). Salary: NIH levels. Details 👇
Flyer detailing information about the position, compensation, and requirements. 

If you need alt-text details to apply for this position, please email Steven Weisberg at steven dot weisberg @ uta dot edu for more information! We'd love to have you on board :)
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Anjan Chatterjee @anjanchatterjee.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Highly recommended!
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Oscar Woolnough @owoolnough.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
#NeuroJobs
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Michael Wiesing @vrneuroscience.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
#VRresearch
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Russell Epstein @russellepstein.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Interested in navigation, VR, fMRI, aging? Here's a great postdoc opportunity in @stevenmweisberg.bsky.social's new lab at U Texas Arlington.
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Steven Weisberg @stevenmweisberg.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
🚨The SCANN Lab @ UTA is hiring a postdoctoral researcher!🚨 Topics: 🧭 spatial navigation, 🧠 fMRI, 🎮 VR, 👵 cognitive aging. Start date: Nov 2025 (flexible). Salary: NIH levels. Details 👇
Flyer detailing information about the position, compensation, and requirements. 

If you need alt-text details to apply for this position, please email Steven Weisberg at steven dot weisberg @ uta dot edu for more information! We'd love to have you on board :)
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Steven Weisberg @stevenmweisberg.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Job market alert! Are you hiring a post-doc? You absolutely must consider the brilliant @ashleykrause.bsky.social I was lucky enough to write a paper with Ashley on a topic I knew oh so little about and learned a TON. Place Coherence - www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Decision & Aging @srndna.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
🎧 New Decision & Aging Insights🎙️ episode ‪@vpmurty.bsky.social describes his research for an SRNDNA Pilot Grant and finding inspiration at a haunted house. He also talks about moving his lab across country and the impact of a single line in his presentations. Listen now: srndna.utdallas.edu/podcast/
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Adam Barnas @adamjbarnas.com · 23/05/2025
Stay tuned for more news and info here or on my (currently out-of-date) website: adamjbarnas.com. Happy Friday! open.spotify.com/track/7F22lG...
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