Marion Durteste (PhD student Sorbonne University)

Vision Institute
Aging in Vision and Action Lab
CNRS – INSERM – Sorbonne University
17, rue Moreau F-75012 Paris, France
Phone: +33 (0)1 53 46 26 54

 

Research interests:  Older adults exhibit prominent impairments in their capacity to reorient and navigate in unfamiliar environments. In the literature, the impact of visuo-cognitive ageing on spatial navigation abilities remains elusive. I am particularly interested in understanding how modulations of the visual environment affect underlying patterns of brain activity and ultimately spatial navigation across the lifespan. Using structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), I will concentrate on three levels of neural integration: scene-selective regions (at the crossroads between visual and spatial information processing), grid cell-like representations in the entorhinal cortex and hippocampal subfields. This project might provide insights to distinguish the behavioural and cortical changes linked to normal ageing from those related to pathogenic processes characterised by deficits in spatial navigation, such as Alzheimer’s disease.

Short bio:  I studied Biomedical Sciences at University College London (UCL). A growing interest for neuroscience led me to conduct my first year Masters project at UCL’s Dementia Research Centre where I examined the impact of GBA mutations on visual cognition in Parkinson’s Disease. For my second-year project I investigated the neural correlates of visuo-spatial information processing in healthy ageing at the Vision Institute in Paris. I obtained my Masters degree in Brain and Mind Sciences from a joint collaboration between UCL, Sorbonne Université and Ecole Normale Supérieure. I am now pursuing a PhD funded by the “Fondation pour la Recherche sur Alzheimer” at the Aging in Vision and Action lab.

Keywords: visual ageing, spatial navigation, scene perception, functional MRI, structural MRI

 

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2022

  1. Durteste M, Van Poucke L, Combariza S, Benziane B, Ramanoel S and Arleo A (2022) The vertical position of visual information conditions spatial memory performance in healthy ageing. In 17th International Conference for Young Researchers in Psychology (JSJC), Lille, France.
  2. Naveilhan C, Delaux A, Durteste M, Lebrun J, Zory R, Arleo A and Ramanoel S (2022) Top-down modulation of brain visual coding of navigational affordances during spatial decision task. In 17th International Conference for Young Researchers in Psychology (JSJC), Lille, France.
  3. Ramanoel S, Durteste M, Delaux A, Habas C and Arleo A (2022) The neural underpinnings of visual information processing for spatial navigation in healthy aging. In 22nd conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCOP), Lille, France.
  4. Durteste M, VanPoucke L, Combariza S, Benziane B, Ramanoel S and Arleo A (2022) Spatial memory in healthy ageing is modulated by upper-lower visual field asymmetries. In Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS), Paris, France.
  5. Durteste M, VanPoucke L, Benziane B, Ramanoel S and Arleo A (2022) The vertical position of visual information influences memory in healthy aging. In Colloque des Jeunes Chercheurs en Sciences Cognitives (CJC-SCo), Paris, France.
  6. Delaux A, Durteste M, Ariztegui A, Benziane B, Ramanoel S and Arleo A (2022) Functional implications of vertical coding biases in scene-selective regions on spatial orientation: evidence from source localized EEG recording. In Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS), Paris, France.

2020

  1. Durteste M, Ramanoel S, Bécu M, Habas C and Arleo A (2020) Age-related differences in brain regions linked to visuo-spatial processing during landmark-based navigation. In 15ème Journée Scientifique des Jeunes Chercheurs en Psychologie.
  2. Durteste M, Ramanoel S, Bécu M, Habas C and Arleo A (2020) Age-related differences in brain regions linked to visuo-spatial processing during landmark-based navigation. In Neuromatch 3.0, vol. 3.

2019

  1. Ramanoel S, Durteste M, Bizeul A, Bécu M, Habas C and Arleo A (2019) Age-related differences in the neural bases of landmark versus geometric spatial cue processing. In Colloque International: Vieillissement, tours, contours et perspectives, Tours, France.
  2. Ramanoel S, Durteste M, Bizeul A, Ozier-Lafontaine A, Bécu M, Rossignol N, Habas C and Arleo A (2019) Distinct cerebral structures are involved in landmark vs. geometry based spatial navigation. In Society for Neuroscience (SfN), Chicago, USA.