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UCL Spatial Cognition Group

• Our research investigates the neural representations of space
• The group is led by Dr Hugo Spiers and based in the UCL Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience
• Latest lab news: Hugo Spiers has been elected a member of the Memory Disorders Research Society
  
• Read coverage of our research at Nature News & The Guardian
  

• Research in the laboratory is funded by the:

  • Wellcome Trust (UK)
  • James S. McDonnell Foundation (USA)
  • Biotechnology and Biological Research Council (UK)
  • Axona Ltd (UK)
  • Deep Mind Ltd (UK)

• Axial integration map of Greater London (c) Space Syntax
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• Our art installation 'Pattern Completion' at UCL
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• Axial integration values for the region of Soho used in our fMRI research
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• Hippocampal Place Cell: plot of trajectory (black) and action potenitals (green)
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• UCL Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience Bedford Way Building
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• Current project Soho
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• Hippocampal signal during navigation
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