Since 2023: Senior Postdoctoral Research Associate
Department of Neuropsychology, Ruhr University Bochum

Since 2019: Honorary Researcher
Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London, UK

2021-2023: Lecturer
Psychology, Queen Mary University, London, UK

2020-2021: King's Prize Research Fellow
Centre for Neuroimaging Sciences, King's College London, UK

2019-2020: Postdoctoral Research Associate in Computational Neuroscience
Oxford University & University College London, UK

2016-2019: Postdoctoral Research Associate in Neuroimaging and Big Data
Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience, Experimental Psychology, University College London, UK

2014-2016: Postdoctoral Researcher in Cognitive Health and Ageing
Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, Oxford University, UK

2012-2013: Postdoctoral Researcher in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Unit, Institute of Child Health, University College London, UK

2012: Doctorate
Dr. Phil. in Experimental Psychology, Oxford University, UK

2007: B. A. in Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience
The George Washington University, Washington D.C., US

• Garg T, Velasco PF, Patai EZ, Malcolm CP, Kovalets V, Bohbot VD, Coutrot A, Hegarty M, Hornberger M, Spiers HJ (2024) The relationship between object-based spatial ability and virtual navigation performance. PLoS One 19(5):e0298116. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0298116
   
• West GL, Patai ZE, Coutrot A, Hornberger M, Bohbot VD, Spiers HJ (2023) Landmark-dependent Navigation Strategy Declines across the Human Life-Span: Evidence from Over 37,000 Participants. J Cogn Neurosci 35(3):452-467. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01956
   
• Patai EZ, Foltynie T, Limousin P, Akram H, Zrinzo L, Bogacz R, Litvak V (2022) Conflict Detection in a Sequential Decision Task Is Associated with Increased Cortico-Subthalamic Coherence and Prolonged Subthalamic Oscillatory Response in the β Band. J Neurosci 42(23):4681-4692. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0572-21.2022
   
• Patai EZ, Spiers HJ (2021) The Versatile Wayfinder: Prefrontal Contributions to Spatial Navigation. Trends Cogn Sci 25(6):520-533. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2021.02.010
   
• Raeder SM, Bone JK, Patai EZ, Holmes EA, Nobre AC, Murphy SE (2019) Emotional distraction in the context of memory-based orienting of attention. Emotion 19(8):1366-1376. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000506
   
• Javadi AH, Patai EZ, Marin-Garcia E, Margois A, Tan HM, Kumaran D, Nardini M, Penny W, Duzel E, Dayan P, Spiers HJ (2019) Backtracking during navigation is correlated with enhanced anterior cingulate activity and suppression of alpha oscillations and the 'default-mode' network. Proc Biol Sci 286(1908):20191016. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.1016
   
• Javadi AH, Patai EZ, Marin-Garcia E, Margolis A, Tan HM, Kumaran D, Nardini M, Penny W, Duzel E, Dayan P, Spiers HJ (2019) Prefrontal Dynamics Associated with Efficient Detours and Shortcuts: A Combined Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Magnetoencenphalography Study. J Cogn Neurosci 31(8):1227-1247. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01414
   
• Brunec IK, Robin J, Patai EZ, Ozubko JD, Javadi AH, Barense MD, Spiers HJ, Moscovitch M (2019) Cognitive mapping style relates to posterior-anterior hippocampal volume ratio. Hippocampus 29(8):748-754. https://doi.org/10.1002/hipo.23072
   
• Patai EZ, Javadi AH, Ozubko JD, O'Callaghan A, Ji S, Robin J, Grady C, Winocur G, Rosenbaum RS, Moscovitch M, Spiers HJ (2019) Hippocampal and Retrosplenial Goal Distance Coding After Long-term Consolidation of a Real-World Environment. Cereb Cortex 29(6):2748-2758. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhz044
   
• Doherty BR, van Ede F, Fraser A, Patai EZ, Nobre AC, Scerif G (2019) The Functional Consequences of Social Attention for Memory-guided Attention Orienting and Anticipatory Neural Dynamics. J Cogn Neurosci 31(5):686-698. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01379
   
• Epstein RA, Patai EZ, Julian JB, Spiers HJ (2017) The cognitive map in humans: spatial navigation and beyond. Nat Neurosci 20(11):1504-1513. https://doi.org/10.1038/nn.4656
   
• Patai EZ, Spiers HJ (2017) Human Navigation: Occipital Place Area Detects Potential Paths in a Scene. Curr Biol 27(12):R599-R600. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2017.05.012
   
• Zokaei N, MacKellar C, Čepukaitytė G, Patai EZ, Nobre AC (2017) Cognitive Training in the Elderly: Bottlenecks and New Avenues. J Cogn Neurosci 29(9):1473-1482. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01080
   
• Patai EZ, Spiers HJ (2016) Cracking the mnemonic code. Nat Neurosci 20(1):8-9. https://doi.org/10.1038/nn.4466
   
• Doherty BR, Patai EZ, Duta M, Nobre AC, Scerif G (2017) The functional consequences of social distraction: Attention and memory for complex scenes. Cognition 158:215-223. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2016.10.015
   
• Salvato G, Patai EZ, McCloud T, Nobre AC (2016) Apolipoprotein ɛ4 breaks the association between declarative long-term memory and memory-based orienting of spatial attention in middle-aged individuals. Cortex 82:206-216. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2016.06.002
   
• Salvato G, Patai EZ, Nobre AC (2016)  Preserved memory-based orienting of attention with impaired explicit memory in healthy ageing. Cortex. 74:67-78. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2015.10.019
   
• Patai EZ, Gadian DG, Cooper JM, Dzieciol AM, Mishkin M, Vargha-Khadem F (2015) Extent of hippocampal atrophy predicts degree of deficit in recall. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 112(41):12830-3. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1511904112
   
• Hydock C, Patai EZ, Sohn MH (2013) Distinct response components indicate that binding is the primary cause of response repetition effects. J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 39(6):1598-611. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0032590
   
• Patai EZ, Buckley A, Nobre AC (2013) Is attention based on spatial contextual memory preferentially guided by low spatial frequency signals? PLoS One 8(6):e65601. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0065601
   
• Doallo S, Patai EZ, Nobre AC (2013) Reward associations magnify memory-based biases on perception. J Cogn Neurosci 25(2):245-57. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_00314
   
• Patai EZ, Doallo S, Nobre AC (2012) Long-term memories bias sensitivity and target selection in complex scenes. J Cogn Neurosci 24(12):2281-91. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_00294
   
• Stokes MG, Atherton K, Patai EZ, Nobre AC (2012) Long-term memory prepares neural activity for perception. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 109(6):E360-E367. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1108555108

• King's College London Prize Fellowship
  independent research PI, 2 years, salary, consumables and scanning costs
   
• 2018: Visiting Fellowship, Universität Osaka, Japan
  salary and research costs
   
• 2018: NVIDIA GPU Grant
  computing equipment
   
• Travel Awards for conference attendance
  Brain Fund, Experimental Psychology Society, New College Oxford Travel Fund

Talks

UCL CDCN Seminar Series 2021, Brain Meeting at Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Neuroimaging UCL 2020, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology UCL seminar 2019, Global Health Film Festival London 2018, Genesis Digital Bio-convergence 2018, Royal Institute of Navigation 2017, EBBS Conference Bilbao 2017, Eötvös Loránd University Budapest 2017, University Medical Center Hamburg 2016, Philosophy and Psychiatry Summer School and Conference 2015, The George Washington University 2012

Poster presentations and/or talks

British Association for Cognitive Neuroscience 2024, Spring Hippocampal Conference 2019/2024, Neuromatch 3.0 2020, iNav 2017; Society for Neuroscience in 2012/2013/2014/2015/ 2018/2019/2022, MEG UK 2015/2016/2017/2019, Cutting EEG 2015, International Conference for Cognitive Neuroscience 2011; Human Brain mapping 2010; Alpine Brain Imaging Meeting 2010; Rovereto Attention Workshop, 2010; Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2009/2008

Organization

Nanosymposium, SFN 2015: Influence of Memory on Perception