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Overview

Thomas Wolbers is affiliated with the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience, with a significant emphasis on cognitive neuroscience and experimental and cognitive psychology. Additional areas of study include automotive engineering, human-computer interaction, and sensory systems.

The main topics covered in their body of work are:

  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Spatial Cognition and Navigation
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Neuroscience and Music Perception
  • Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts
  • Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies

Thomas Wolbers has authored numerous scientific papers with a presence in various journals and proceedings. Some of the recent publications include:

  • "Sources of path integration error in young and aging humans," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Path integration in normal aging and Alzheimer's disease," 2021, Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • "Increased Hippocampal Excitability and Altered Learning Dynamics Mediate Cognitive Mapping Deficits in Human Aging," 2021, Journal of Neuroscience
  • "Entorhinal-based path integration selectively predicts midlife risk of Alzheimer's disease," 2024, Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • "Reaching the Goal: Superior Navigators in Late Adulthood Provide a Novel Perspective into Successful Cognitive Aging," 2022, Topics in Cognitive Science

Their frequent publication venues encompass:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Scientific Reports
  • Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • Journal of Neuroscience

Thomas Wolbers has collaborated extensively with a core group of co-authors including:

  • Martin Riemer
  • Vladislava Segen
  • Matthias Stangl
  • Esther Kuehn
  • Peng Liu

This profile reflects an active research career centered on understanding neural underpinnings of memory, navigation, and aging, leveraging experimental approaches to explore functional brain dynamics and cognitive aging processes.

Best Publications

  • What determines our navigational abilities

    Thomas Wolbers;Mary Hegarty

  • Dissociable Retrosplenial and Hippocampal Contributions to Successful Formation of Survey Representations

    Thomas Wolbers;Christian Büchel

  • The Aging Navigational System.

    Adam W. Lester;Scott D. Moffat;Jan M. Wiener;Carol A. Barnes

  • Hippocampus activity differentiates good from poor learners of a novel lexicon.

    Caterina Breitenstein;Andreas Jansen;Michael Deppe;Ann-Freya Foerster

  • Differential recruitment of the hippocampus, medial prefrontal cortex, and the human motion complex during path integration in humans.

    Thomas Wolbers;Jan M. Wiener;Hanspeter A. Mallot;Christian Büchel

  • Challenges for identifying the neural mechanisms that support spatial navigation: the impact of spatial scale.

    Thomas Wolbers;Jan M. Wiener

  • Spatial updating: how the brain keeps track of changing object locations during observer motion

    Thomas Wolbers;Thomas Wolbers;Mary Hegarty;Christian Büchel;Jack M Loomis

  • Maladaptive bias for extrahippocampal navigation strategies in aging humans.

    Jan M. Wiener;Olivier de Condappa;Mathew A. Harris;Thomas Wolbers

  • The Human Retrosplenial Cortex and Thalamus Code Head Direction in a Global Reference Frame

    Jonathan P. Shine;José P. Valdés-Herrera;Mary Hegarty;Thomas Wolbers

  • Modality-independent coding of spatial layout in the human brain.

    Thomas Wolbers;Roberta L. Klatzky;Jack M. Loomis;Magdalena G. Wutte

  • The Human Dentate Gyrus Plays a Necessary Role in Discriminating New Memories

    Stevenson Baker;Paula Vieweg;Fuqiang Gao;Asaf Gilboa

  • Ageing effects on path integration and landmark navigation.

    Mathew A. Harris;Thomas Wolbers;Thomas Wolbers

  • Cardiovascular fitness modulates brain activation associated with spatial learning

    Kathrin Holzschneider;Thomas Wolbers;Brigitte Röder;Kirsten Hötting

  • Cue combination in human spatial navigation.

    Xiaoli Chen;Timothy P. McNamara;Jonathan W. Kelly;Thomas Wolbers

  • A protocol for manual segmentation of medial temporal lobe subregions in 7 Tesla MRI.

    D. Berron;D. Berron;P. Vieweg;A. Hochkeppler;J.B. Pluta

  • Compromised Grid-Cell-like Representations in Old Age as a Key Mechanism to Explain Age-Related Navigational Deficits.

    Matthias Stangl;Johannes Achtzehn;Karin Huber;Caroline Dietrich

  • Aging specifically impairs switching to an allocentric navigational strategy.

    Mathew A Harris;Jan M. Wiener;Thomas Wolbers;Thomas Wolbers

  • Neural foundations of emerging route knowledge in complex spatial environments.

    Thomas Wolbers;Cornelius Weiller;Christian Büchel

  • How age-related strategy switching deficits affect wayfinding in complex environments

    Mathew A. Harris;Thomas Wolbers

  • Dissociable contributions within the medial temporal lobe to encoding of object-location associations

    Tobias Sommer;Michael Rose;Jan Gläscher;Thomas Wolbers

  • How cognitive aging affects multisensory integration of navigational cues

    Sarah L. Bates;Thomas Wolbers

  • Research report Neural foundations of emerging route knowledge in complex spatial environments

    Thomas Wolbers;Cornelius Weiller;Christian Bqchel

Frequent Co-Authors

Christian Büchel
Christian Büchel University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
Claus Tempelmann
Claus Tempelmann Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
Mary Hegarty
Mary Hegarty University of California, Santa Barbara
Cornelius Weiller
Cornelius Weiller University of Freiburg
Alexander Münchau
Alexander Münchau University of Lübeck
Jack M. Loomis
Jack M. Loomis University of California, Santa Barbara
Sergio Della Sala
Sergio Della Sala University of Edinburgh
Hedderik van Rijn
Hedderik van Rijn University of Groningen
Peter König
Peter König Osnabrück University
Heinrich H. Bülthoff
Heinrich H. Bülthoff Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics

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