The Center for Research and Education in Navigation (CRaNE) is an interdisciplinary community for scholars interested in spatial processing, design, and navigation. CRaNE member research and training foci span basic and applied science in human and animal models, architecture, robotics, and artificial agents.
As part of its research mission, CRaNE aims to promote inter-lab grants and projects, through mechanisms including providing seed funds to members, and through working groups collaborating on research projects directly as well as large-scale funding applications
As part of its training mission, CRaNE aims to promote education at the frontiers of spatial cognition, computation, design, and navigation problems through workshops, educational outreach activities (e.g., K-12 STEM work) and pursuing sustained graduate training funds and establishing graduate trainee exchange programs between member institutions
CRaNE will host the second annual Conference for Research and Education in Navigation – May, 2025 in Atlanta GA (see registration page accessed from the drop-down menu above!). Each conference hosts a Special Emphasis panel discussion which addresses a major issue bridging our fields
CRaNE is running a Special Issue on Maps In the Brain through Neuropsychologia. The link with the key information, how to submit, and our excellent list of editors for the issue is here: