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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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Paulina Maxim, a Ph.D. student of Thackery Brown, assistant professor in the School of Psychology, has published her first lead author paper in a special edition of Topics in Cognitive Science. The edition is dedicated to individual differences in spatial navigation ability, and Maxim's paper reviews current knowledge on spatial schemas in navigation, and discusses future research opportunities. (Schemas are patterns of thought or behavior that help organize information.) A key focus of Maxim's review is the impact of psychological stress on spatial memory and navigation. Maxim researches cognition and brain science in Thackery's Memory-Affect-Planning (MAP) Lab.
