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SUMMARY:Exploring cognition across cultures: Insights for testing world-wi
 de navigation - Professor Hugo Spiers (Department of Experimental Psycholo
 gy\, UCL)
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CONTACT:John Mollon
DESCRIPTION:How does the environment and the culture we live in impact our
  cognition? This is a challenging question to answer at global level\, com
 paring across the vast array or environments and cultures that exist on ou
 r planet. On approach\, taken here\, is to focus on the universal ability 
 to navigate space\, which varies wildly in many populations and has a rang
 e of cultural associations where some groups and nations are famed for the
 ir navigation. To explore this phenomena we used a gamified test of naviga
 tion in the form of a mobile app - Sea Hero Quest. In this talk I explore 
 patterns in the data collected from over 4 million participants that provi
 de insight into the way out environment and culture can shape cognition. \
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LOCATION:Ground Floor Lecture Theatre\, Department of  Psychology
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