Martin Chadwick and Hugo Spiers found that the entorhinal cortex acts as an internal compass, playing a key role in spatial navigation
Tom Hardwicke, Leila Jameel, Matthew Jones, Eryk J Walczak, & Lucía M Weinberg's article on fixing the problems in Psychology
Hugo Spiers comments on exciting new findings of 3D head direction cells in bats' presubiculum
Hugo Spiers talks hippocampami, London taxis, and John O'Keefe's Nobel (in Swedish and English).
What's the best way of using an hour of study time to learn novel foreign vocabulary items? This competition offers a $10,000 prize for the winning method.
A festival where writers discussed the relationship between storytelling and memory in dialogue with a neuroscientist, technology futures specialist, and a neuro-literary critic. Featuring our own Dr. Hugo Spiers.
Maarten Speekenbrink & Emmanuouil Konstantinidis win the Society for Cognitive Science Computational Modeling Prize
A new paper in Current Biology by Howard et al. demonstrates that demostrates that the hippocampus encodes both the path and distance to spatial goals.
Dr. Hugo Spiers' team found that blindly following directions causes a part of the brain particularly important for spatial navigation to decrease its activity.
Prof. Kate Jeffery received a highly prestigious Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award for her work entitled Neural Encoding of Complex Space.
Prof. Brad Love was awarded a Leverhulme Project Grant entitled "Circumventing Limits in Memory Retrieval"