Scientific Focus
Cognitive neuroscience of learning and memory, cognitive maps, concept learning, neuro-cognitive mechanisms of reasoning and intelligence
Methods
- Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)
- Cognitive paradigms
- Magnetoencephalography (MEG)
Selected Publications
Theves (in press). Thinking as analogy-making: towards a neural process account of general intelligence. The Journal of Neuroscience.
Theves, S., Schäfer, T., Reisner, de Cothi, W., & Barry, C. (2024). Category boundaries modulate memory in a place-cell-like manner. Current biology: CB, S0960-9822(24)01351-4. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.09.083
Theves, S., Neville, D. A., Fernández, G., & Doeller, C.F. (2021). Learning and Representation of Hierarchical Concepts in Hippocampus and Prefrontal Cortex. The Journal of Neuroscience, 41(36), 7675–7686. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0657-21.2021
Theves, S., Fernández, G., Doeller, C.F. (2020). The hippocampus maps concept space, not feature space. The Journal of Neuroscience. 40 (38), 7318–7325. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0494-20.2020
Theves, S., Fernández, G., Doeller, C.F. (2019). The hippocampus encodes distances in multidimensional feature space. Current Biology, 29 (7), 1226 –1231. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.02.035