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SUMMARY:How the Built Environment Affects Spatial Behavior\, Brain Activit
 y and Aesthetics - Professor Hugo Spiers
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CONTACT:Sara Seddon
DESCRIPTION:The host for this talk is Nicky Clayton\n\nAbstract: \nThe tal
 k will present research from our research team where we have explored how 
 the structure of the environment affects wayfinding behaviour. It will cov
 er our research with Sea Hero Quest in which we found growing up in griddy
  cities has a negative impact on navigation behaviour\, as well as well as
  research with London taxi drivers how the environment affects how they pl
 an. In the second part I will cover our recent research in neuroarchitectu
 re exploring brain responses (fMRI) during watching movies of pleasant or 
 unpleasant built environment and crowd dynamics in a study of 100 people n
 avigating and exploring a fabricated large-scale art gallery (The 100 Mind
 s in Motion Project). \n\nBio:\nHugo Spiers is Professor of Cognitive Neur
 oscience\, and a  Vice Dean for Enterprise\, at University College London 
 (UCL). He has over 25 years of research experience in neuroscience and psy
 chology studying how our brain recalls the past\, navigates the present an
 d imagines the future. He has published over 100 academic articles and rec
 eived numerous awards including the Charles Darwin Award from the British 
 Science Association and a James McDonnell Foundation Scholar Award. He is 
 co-director of the International Centre for NeuroArchitecture and NeuroDes
 ign\, a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Navigation\, a Lighthouse Fellow 
 of the Centre for Conscious Design and the Vice Chair of the Academy of Ne
 uroscience for Architecture in the UK. His research project  Sea Hero Ques
 t has tested over 4 million people in 195 nations on their navigation abil
 ity\, providing a powerful benchmark for assessment in Alzheimer's disease
  and global insight into cognition. 
LOCATION:Ground Floor Lecture Theatre\, Department of  Psychology
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