Abstract
Our ability to perceive, remember and navigate through spatial environments is thought to depend on a specialised and highly interconnected brain system that involves the hippocampus, entorhinal cortex and retrosplenial cortex. Exciting new evidence from rodents has begun to highlight a potential key role of the cerebellum in this ability, potentially via its connectivity with the hippocampus. The goal of the project is to apply cutting-edge neuroimaging, neurostimulation and virtual reality cognitive tasks to understand the structure of this hippocampal-cerebellar system in the living human brain, and its contribution to spatial cognition.
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