Jacob Bellmund

Cognitive Neuroscientist

Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Biography

I am a cognitive neuroscientist at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig (Germany). My research interests include spatial navigation and episodic memory. I am most curious about how coding principles in the hippocampal-entorhinal region enable flexible cognition. In my research, I combine fMRI with behavioral experiments and virtual reality technology.

Interests

Cognitive Spaces
Spatial Navigation
Episodic Memory
Translational Neuroscience

Education

PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience, 2019

Donders Institute, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands
Diplom Psychology (M.Sc. equiv.), 2013

Philipps-University, Marburg, Germany

News

Hippocampal Subfields Group webinar

I will be giving a talk at the Hippocampal Subfields Group webinar series on 26 May 2021.

Jacob Bellmund

Apr 23, 2021 news

Constructive memory & generalization: New preprint

Our new preprint on constructive memory for temporal relations and generalization is now on bioRxiv.

Jacob Bellmund

Mar 10, 2021 news

New paper in Scientific Reports

Our new paper on learning to physically navigate an abstract quantity space is now published in Scientific Reports.

Publications

D Kuhrt, NR St. John, JLS Bellmund, R Kaplan, CF Doeller (2021). An immersive first-person navigation task for abstract knowledge acquisition. Scientific Reports.

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JLS Bellmund (2020). Piecing together cognitive maps one dimension at a time. Neuron.

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JLS Bellmund, I Polti, CF Doeller (2020). Sequence memory in the hippocampal-entorhinal region. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.

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JLS Bellmund, W de Cothi, TA Ruiter, M Nau, C Barry, CF Doeller (2020). Deforming the metric of cognitive maps distorts memory. Nature Human Behaviour.

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JLS Bellmund, L Deuker, CF Doeller (2019). Mapping sequence structure in the human lateral entorhinal cortex. eLife.

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JLS Bellmund, P Gardenfors, EI Moser, CF Doeller (2018). Navigating Cognition: Spatial Codes for Human Thinking. Science.

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M Nau, T Navarro Schröder, JLS Bellmund, CF Doeller (2018). Hexadirectional coding of visual space in human entorhinal cortex. Nature Neuroscience.

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L Deuker, JLS Bellmund, T Navarro Schröder, CF Doeller (2016). An event map of memory space in the hippocampus. eLife.

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JLS Bellmund, L Deuker, T Navarro Schröder, CF Doeller (2016). Grid-cell representations in mental simulation. eLife.

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