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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2023

  1. Durteste M, Van Poucke L, Combariza S, Benziane B, Sahel J-A, Ramanoel S and Arleo A (2023) The vertical position of visual information conditions spatial memory performance in healthy aging. Communications Psychology, 1:2.

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 aging. BioRxiv Preprint.
  2. Ramanoel S, Durteste M, Bizeul A, Ozier-Lafontaine A, Becu M, Sahel AJ, Habas C and Arleo A (2022) Selective neural coding of object, feature, and geometry spatial cues in humans. Human Brain Mapping.
  3. Ramanoel S, Durteste M, Perot V, Habas C and Arleo A (2022) An appraisal of the role of the neocerebellum for spatial navigation in healthy aging. The Cerebellum.
  4. Ramanoel S, Durteste M, Delaux A, de Saint Aubert J-B and Arleo A (2022) Future trends in brain aging research: visuo-cognitive functions at stake during mobility and spatial navigation. Aging Brain, 2:100034.

2020

  1. Ramanoel S, Durteste M, Bécu M, Habas C and Arleo A (2020) Differential Brain Activity in Regions Linked to Visuospatial Processing During Landmark-Based Navigation in Young and Healthy Older Adults. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 14:552111.

2019

  1. Durteste M, Kyselyova G, Volokha A, Judd A, Thorne C, Cortina-Borja M, Malyuta R, Martsynovska V, Nizova N and Bailey H (2019) Anxiety symptoms and felt stigma among young people living with perinatally or behaviourally-acquired HIV in Ukraine: A cross-sectional survey. PloS One, 14(1).
  2. Leyland L-A, Bremner FD, Mahmood R, Hewitt S, Durteste M, Cartlidge MRE, Lai MM-M, Miller LE, Saygin AP, Keane PA, Schrag AE and Weil RS (2019) Visual tests predict dementia risk in Parkinson disease. Neurology: Clinical Practice:10.1212/CPJ.0000000000000719.