Adam Steel

Assistant Professor, Psychology
Full-time faculty, Beckman Institute

Education

Biomedical sciences, DPhil, University of Oxford

Additional Campus Affiliations

Assistant Professor, Psychology
Assistant Professor, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology

Recent Publications

Angeli, P. A., Steel, A., & Robertson, C. E. (2026). Positive and Negative Retinotopic Codes in the Human Hippocampus. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 46(35). https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0309-26.2026

Tang, R., Panek, D., Barkoff, L. H., Scrivener, C. L., Silson, E. H., & Steel, A. (2026). Scene Perception–Memory Pairing Extends to the Superior Parietal Cortex. eNeuro, 13(9), Article ENEURO.0155-26.2026. https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0155-26.2026

Mynick, A., Steel, A., Jayaraman, A., Botch, T. L., Burrows, A., & Robertson, C. E. (2025). Memory-based predictions prime perceptual judgments across head turns in immersive, real-world scenes. Current Biology, 35(1), 121-130.e6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.11.024

Steel, A., Prasad, D., Garcia, B. D., & Robertson, C. E. (2025). Relating Scene Memory and Perception Activity to Functional Properties, Networks, and Landmarks of Posterior Cerebral Cortex—A Probabilistic Atlas. Journal of Neuroscience, 45(23), Article e0028252025. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0028-25.2025

Steel, A., Silson, E. H., Garcia, B. D., & Robertson, C. E. (2024). A retinotopic code structures the interaction between perception and memory systems. Nature Neuroscience, 27(2), 339-347. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-023-01512-3

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