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Can’t believe we’re in @sifted.eu Such a joy to represent Scotland’s gaming scene in Japan and to share Sea Hero Quest with Japan from our stand at the World Expo. Thanks to @techscaler.bsky.social for making it happen. Read more below:

Scottish startups up their game in Japan

CodeBase extended its successful Techscaler programme to Japan earlier this year, taking a cohort of eight Scottish gaming startups there.

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Buzzing to see Sea Hero Quest being featured in the upcoming book Hacking Humanity by @laralewington.bsky.social which has sparked some coverage over the past few days. Big thanks to @hugospiers.bsky.social 🧠 The waitlist for the latest version is growing fast - sign up here: seaheroquest.com

Sea Hero Quest being featured in the i Newspaper and the Daily Mail.

If you think the future of cognitive health is doing the same old stuff… scroll on. 💤 We’re building a lab in your pocket - powered by games, built with science - shoutout to our amazing partners @hugospiers.bsky.social, @antoinecoutrot.bsky.social + crew! 🧠🎮 GO ON PUT A LAB IN YOUR POCKET:

PUT A LAB IN YOUR POCKET — GLITCHERS - Games for Good

When we launched Sea Hero Quest , scientists had no idea what healthy navigation performance looked like. It was so important to understand, because it’s one of the first things to decline in Alzhei...

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Could Sea Hero Quest be used as part of a strategy for detecting early markers of cognitive decline? 🧠 Translational Psychiatry article from '22 - Robert Whelan, Florentine M. Barbey, Marcia R. Cominetti, Claire M. Gillan & Anna M. Rosická

Developments in scalable strategies for detecting early markers of cognitive decline - Translational Psychiatry

Translational Psychiatry - Developments in scalable strategies for detecting early markers of cognitive decline

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Hugo Spiers@hugospiers.bsky.social · 2y ago

Yesterday's post on our @pnas.org study of London taxi drivers. Yellow lines = imagined journeys, described street-by-street. Some were 30 streets, which if using a tree-search over 26,000 possible states would take a very very long time. Daniel McNamee's models show how they compress this problem:

🚨 new publication from our lab in @pnas.org ! "Expert navigators deploy rational complexity–based decision precaching for large-scale real-world planning" Entropy of streets & successor representations explain planning speed Colab wth Daniel McNamee at Champalimaud www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Map of london with the planned routes of 43 taxi drivers overlaid in yellow lines.

🚨 New fMRI preprint from our lab 🚨 "Brain dynamics during architectural experience: prefrontal and hippocampal regions track aesthetics and spatial complexity" Led by Lara Gregorians with co-authors, Zita Patai, Pablo Fernandez Velasco & Fiona Zisch. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #neuroskyence

Paula Beakes @paulabeakes.bsky.social · 2y ago

⚓ Can you believe it's been almost 9 years since Sea Hero Quest first set sail? In 2025, we’re embarking on an exciting chapter in the SHQ universe as we move closer to launching the clinical version. Here’s more about what’s ahead and how you can get involved www.glitchers.com/blog/longitu... 🧠

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Little legend in the studio today 🐾 @glitchers.bsky.social

A cute cat, Scout, descends a wooden staircase looking around the corner.

If you are interested in using Sea Hero Quest in a clinical setting, please read more on our website & get in touch. New features including longitudinal testing and visible outcome measures on the dashboard are coming soon:

GLITCHERS: Early Intervention for Alzheimer's dementia

Navigation performance is a key early indicator in Alzheimer’s dementia. Sea Hero Quest by GLITCHERS can accurately measure navigation performance throughout life, making it an invaluable assessment t...

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🧠 ⚓ If you are a researcher with ethics and you'd like to try a spatial navigation test with a 4.3 million data benchmark - please register to use Sea Hero Quest here: dash.seahero.quest

A computer game could reveal early signs of dementia

Hugo Spiers@hugospiers.bsky.social · 2y ago

Great to hear @tspiresjones.bsky.social on Radio 4 last night discussing these results. Certainly there is hope that we create ways of helping boost all our thinking and memory in the future, which likely will be beneficial.

V interesting study in @bmj.com USA Taxi drivers & ambulance drivers are less likely to die of Alzheimer's disease than people of other professions Links made to Eleanor Maguire's famous discovery that the posterior hippocampus of London taxi drivers was larger than controls. My thoughts in🧵

GLITCHERS@glitchers.bsky.social · 2y ago

Indeed @glitchers.bsky.social are right, there is great promise with apps like Sea Hero Quest to help train up people's skills and help monitor for decline I'm excited to see how this can develop.

💡Extremely interesting paper, make sure to check out @hugospiers.bsky.social thread on this. Spatial training could have a protective role for AD! We have an incredibly sensitive spatial navigation test with a data benchmark of 4.3 million people with Sea Hero Quest 🧠