Our group’s research focuses on spatial cognition - how spatial information is sensed, learned, remembered and recalled to enable efficient navigation. We are particularly interested in aquatic systems, as these are volumes through which animals can move in all directions. Of course surface bound animals will move up and down over undulating terrain or through structures such as trees or tunnels, but freedom of movement is taken to an extreme in fish. In two overlapping streams of research we aim to discover how spatial information is sensed through the aquatic medium, and how fish learn, memorize, recall and use spatial information to navigate through their complex 3D environments.

We are based at the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, and are part of the Oxford Navigation Group.