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Dr Ricardo Silva to participate in the analysis of a massive new study on dementia research

4 May 2016

Dr Ricardo Silva will contribute to a research initiative led by Dr Hugo Spiers (UCL Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience), with the participation of Dr Ed Manley (UCL, CASA), on the analysis the human navigation behaviour with the goal of better understanding dementia. The data used in the study, unique on its scale, will primarily consist of a massive number of gameplay hours obtained through the mobile game Sea Hero Quest, available on Google Play Store and iTunes. Participants all around the world are expected to download the game and provide information about patterns of human navigation through a series of increasingly difficult tasks.