Sea Hero Quest
@seaheroquest
Project Sea Hero Quest - the worlds first world-wide study of navigation skill using a video game app. 4 Million people tested. Run by @hugospiers Lab
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So proud of Josh and Varnan for their amazing Sea Hero Quest posters at the iSCAN symposium!
Excited to see the work you both go onto do and for future collaboration 🧠🙌
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#iSCAN2023 was a great success - fantastic speakers, a great poster session and lots of interesting discussions. We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did, and we already look forward to #iSCAN2025 ...
Latest Sea Hero Quest preprint out.
This time looking at the impact of education on navigation skill across countries & in the UK the impact of raising the minimum education level in 1953 (which is clearly evident in our data!)
Great thread from Antoine Coutrot - @[email protected] below:
Left-handedness is not linked to better spatial skills, despite some previous evidence of a performance gap, according to a large international study co-led by Prof Prof Hugo Spiers UCL Psych & Lang Sci, part of the Sea Hero Quest gaming research project
ucl.ac.uk/news/2023/nov/…
🚨 Latest Sea Hero Quest publication out today in Proceedings of the Royal Society B:
No link between handedness and spatial navigation: evidence from over 400 000participants in 41 countries
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10....
Map of ratio of left to right handers across nations:
(44) Whilst we're on the topic of navigation, I'm also reading (and have read) several books on navigation.
The one I'm currently reading is the best I've ever read and I'm also intrigued by Sea Hero Quest as a potential training tool.
🚨Latest Sea Hero Quest preprint!
In this collaboration with @RosenbaumLab, Sara Pishdadian, Ph.D was able to compare the performance of 2 well characterised individuals with hippocampal amnesia to precisely matched control populations.
Some impressive performance, despite amnesia!
🚨 New review just out from me and Pablo Fernandez-Velasco out in Trends in Cognitive Sciences
#Wayfinding across ocean and tundra: what traditional cultures teach us about #navigation
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
Latest Sea Hero Quest preprint (yes another one!)
'Geometry of #navigation identifies genetic-risk and clinical #Alzheimer 's disease'
A collaboration between Michael & me, and the team at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford:
medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
📣 Delighted that my preprint 'Individuals learning to drive solo before age 18 have superior spatial navigation ability compared with those who learn to drive later' is now available! 🧠 🚗
👉 tinyurl.com/2s3vfw8t
Prof Hugo Spiers Ed Manley Antoine Coutrot - @[email protected] Chris Gahnstrom
How many male authors does it take to convince you that gender differences in navigation are more nuanced than we like to believe? In our case, it was 9 authors! Check out our latest article, 'Motivation moderates gender differences in navigation performance', in Scientific Reports ♂️♀️
Our new study by the brilliant Simon Walkowiak w/Prof Hugo Spiers and Sea Hero Quest team 👇 measures overconfidence in navigation ability - including how it varies across demographics, between countries, and influences game drop-out rates. Now available as a pre-print below.
Thrilled to be in beautiful sunny Granada for the IBRO - International Brain Research Organization conference!
I will be presenting a poster on Monday afternoon on ‘Exploring the link between travel-related activities and human spatial navigation performance’, poster session A, poster A25.
Let’s network 🧠🙌
Video gaming, but not reliance on GPS, is associated with spatial navigation performance biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_neursci