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Overview

Hugo J. Spiers is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on spatial cognition and navigation, contributing extensively within neuroscience, engineering, and psychology.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Neuroscience
  • Engineering
  • Psychology

Within these broad fields, their work spans several subfields such as:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Automotive Engineering
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Geography, Planning and Development
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology

Hugo J. Spiers's research topics cover a variety of areas, with a high emphasis on:

  • Spatial Cognition and Navigation
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Categorization, perception, and language
  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Geographic Information Systems Studies
  • Sleep and Wakefulness Research
  • Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications

The scientist has published numerous papers in several frequent venues, including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Scientific Reports
  • PLoS ONE
  • Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • Spatial Cognition and Computation

Notable recent publications include:

  • "Entropy of city street networks linked to future spatial navigation ability," 2022, Nature
  • "Spatial goal coding in the hippocampal formation," 2022, Neuron
  • "The Versatile Wayfinder: Prefrontal Contributions to Spatial Navigation," 2021, Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • "Explaining World-Wide Variation in Navigation Ability from Millions of People: Citizen Science Project Sea Hero Quest," 2021, Topics in Cognitive Science
  • "From cognitive maps to spatial schemas," 2022, Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Frequent collaborators working alongside Hugo J. Spiers include:

  • Antoine Coutrot
  • Michael Hornberger
  • Ed Manley
  • Pablo Fernández Velasco
  • Jan Wiener

Best Publications

  • London taxi drivers and bus drivers: A structural MRI and neuropsychological analysis

    Eleanor A. Maguire;Katherine Woollett;Hugo J. Spiers

  • Prefrontal and medial temporal lobe interactions in long-term memory

    Jon S. Simons;Hugo J. Spiers

  • The Well-Worn Route and the Path Less Traveled: Distinct Neural Bases of Route Following and Wayfinding in Humans

    Tom Hartley;Eleanor A. Maguire;Hugo J. Spiers;Neil Burgess

  • The cognitive map in humans: spatial navigation and beyond

    Russell A Epstein;Eva Zita Patai;Joshua B Julian;Hugo J Spiers

  • A Temporoparietal and Prefrontal Network for Retrieving the Spatial Context of Lifelike Events

    Neil Burgess;Eleanor A. Maguire;Hugo J. Spiers;John O'Keefe

  • Thoughts, behaviour, and brain dynamics during navigation in the real world.

    Hugo J. Spiers;Eleanor A. Maguire

  • Navigation expertise and the human hippocampus: a structural brain imaging analysis.

    Eleanor A. Maguire;Hugo J. Spiers;Catriona D. Good;Tom Hartley

  • Navigation around London by a taxi driver with bilateral hippocampal lesions.

    Eleanor A. Maguire;Rory Nannery;Hugo J. Spiers

  • Unilateral temporal lobectomy patients show lateralized topographical and episodic memory deficits in a virtual town.

    Hugo J. Spiers;Neil Burgess;Eleanor A. Maguire;Sallie A. Baxendale

  • Specialization in the medial temporal lobe for processing of objects and scenes.

    Andy C. H. Lee;Mark J. Buckley;Sarah J. Pegman;Hugo Spiers

  • The Hippocampus and Entorhinal Cortex Encode the Path and Euclidean Distances to Goals during Navigation

    Lorelei R. Howard;Lorelei R. Howard;Amir Homayoun Javadi;Yichao Yu;Ravi D. Mill

  • Hippocampal place cells construct reward related sequences through unexplored space

    H Freyja Ólafsdóttir;Caswell Barry;Aman B Saleem;Demis Hassabis

  • Bilateral hippocampal pathology impairs topographical and episodic memory but not visual pattern matching.

    Hugo J. Spiers;Neil Burgess;Tom Hartley;Faraneh Vargha-Khadem

  • A navigational guidance system in the human brain.

    Hugo J. Spiers;Eleanor A. Maguire

  • The dynamic nature of cognition during wayfinding

    Hugo J. Spiers;Eleanor A. Maguire

  • Global Determinants of Navigation Ability

    Antoine Coutrot;Antoine Coutrot;Ricardo Silva;Ed Manley;Will de Cothi

  • Hippocampal Amnesia

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  • Hippocampal and prefrontal processing of network topology to simulate the future

    Amir Homayoun Javadi;Beatrix Emo;Beatrix Emo;Lorelei R. Howard;Fiona E. Zisch

  • Decoding human brain activity during real-world experiences

    Hugo J. Spiers;Eleanor A. Maguire

  • Orientational manoeuvres in the dark: dissociating allocentric and egocentric influences on spatial memory

    Neil Burgess;Hugo J. Spiers;Eleni Paleologou

  • Neural substrates of driving behaviour

    Hugo J. Spiers;Eleanor A. Maguire

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Hornberger
Michael Hornberger University of East Anglia
Eleanor A. Maguire
Eleanor A. Maguire University College London
Dharshan Kumaran
Dharshan Kumaran Google (United States)
Véronique D. Bohbot
Véronique D. Bohbot Douglas Mental Health University Institute
Neil Burgess
Neil Burgess University College London
Christopher Summerfield
Christopher Summerfield University of Oxford
Emrah Düzel
Emrah Düzel German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases
John O'Keefe
John O'Keefe University College London
Caswell Barry
Caswell Barry University College London
John R. Hodges
John R. Hodges University of Sydney

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