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Hugo Spiers @hugospiers.bsky.social · 11d

You can sign up for the early access to the new Sea Hero Quest:
seaheroquest.com

GLITCHERS @glitchers.bsky.social · Aug 9

A wild AI hallucination just made Sea Hero Quest blow up in Korea. Now I just want to know… what on earth are people asking ChatGPT to get this?

Sea Hero Quest Goes Viral in South Korea

Sea Hero Quest went viral in South Korea with over 1.2 million views, adding a huge wave of new people to our waitlist.

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GLITCHERS @glitchers.bsky.social · Jul 1

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.

sifted.eu

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GLITCHERS @glitchers.bsky.social · Jun 24

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.

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GLITCHERS @glitchers.bsky.social · Jun 9

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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GLITCHERS @glitchers.bsky.social · Feb 12

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

www.nature.com

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Hugo Spiers @hugospiers.bsky.social · Jan 28

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:

Hugo Spiers @hugospiers.bsky.social · Jan 27

🚨 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.

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Hugo Spiers @hugospiers.bsky.social · Jan 13

🚨 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

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GLITCHERS @glitchers.bsky.social · Jan 7

⚓ 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... 🧠

https://www.glitchers.com/blog/longitudinal-testing-for-dementia🧠

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Paula Lucas @paulalucas.bsky.social · Dec 18

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

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

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GLITCHERS @glitchers.bsky.social · Dec 18

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...

www.glitchers.com

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GLITCHERS @glitchers.bsky.social · Dec 18

🧠 ⚓ 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

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Hugo Spiers @hugospiers.bsky.social · Dec 18

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.

Hugo Spiers @hugospiers.bsky.social · Dec 17

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🧵

Science News @scinews.bsky.social · Dec 17

Alzheimer’s disease deaths lowest among taxi and ambulance drivers. #BMJ

"Findings raise possibility that frequent spatial processing tasks might offer some protection against Alzheimer’s disease"

Fulltext:
press.psprings.co.uk/bmj/december....

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Hugo Spiers @hugospiers.bsky.social · Dec 17

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.

GLITCHERS @glitchers.bsky.social · Dec 17

💡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 🧠

Science News @scinews.bsky.social · Dec 17

Alzheimer’s disease deaths lowest among taxi and ambulance drivers. #BMJ

"Findings raise possibility that frequent spatial processing tasks might offer some protection against Alzheimer’s disease"

Fulltext:
press.psprings.co.uk/bmj/december....

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GLITCHERS @glitchers.bsky.social · Dec 17

💡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 🧠

Science News @scinews.bsky.social · Dec 17

Alzheimer’s disease deaths lowest among taxi and ambulance drivers. #BMJ

"Findings raise possibility that frequent spatial processing tasks might offer some protection against Alzheimer’s disease"

Fulltext:
press.psprings.co.uk/bmj/december....

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Hugo Spiers @hugospiers.bsky.social · Dec 17

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🧵

Science News @scinews.bsky.social · Dec 17

Alzheimer’s disease deaths lowest among taxi and ambulance drivers. #BMJ

"Findings raise possibility that frequent spatial processing tasks might offer some protection against Alzheimer’s disease"

Fulltext:
press.psprings.co.uk/bmj/december....

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GLITCHERS @glitchers.bsky.social · Dec 16

GLITCHERS was started from the ashes of a mental health event, but it isn't a personal journey anymore, we are a team ⚡

This year we reset the company back to zero, read more here:

A RESET TO ZERO — GLITCHERS - Games for Good

Find out about the journey over 11 years and why this is the year to set the clock back to 0.

www.glitchers.com

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Hugo Spiers @hugospiers.bsky.social · Dec 12

⚠️ New preprint !
"Separable cognitive & motor decline tracked across adult
life-span for goal-directed navigation"

Giovanni Pezzulo's lab modelled the trajectories in Sea Hero Quest to reveal dynamic patterns of goal-directed control and their decline with age:

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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The UNITy Project @theunityproject.bsky.social · Nov 22

Fill out our online pre-screening form to check your eligibility for a psychedelic study at UCL:

👉 bit.ly/unity-ucl

Who we're looking for:
Age: 21-65 - Heavy drinkers - Based in London

Please share with your friends and family.

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Hugo Spiers @hugospiers.bsky.social · Dec 11

Great to see on bsky @glitchers.bsky.social who created
Sea Hero Quest and made it such a success as a tool for assessing spatial navigation ability

www.glitchers.com

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...

www.glitchers.com

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GLITCHERS @glitchers.bsky.social · Dec 11

We've pulled together this page to highlight the papers published so far using Sea Hero Quest 🧠

213 research projects are currently in progress, if you would like to get involved please get in touch ⚡

www.glitchers.com/sea-hero-que...

Sea Hero Quest in Data — GLITCHERS - Games for Good

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GLITCHERS @glitchers.bsky.social · Dec 11

Read this thread about some of the incredible work that's been in progress- all using Sea Hero Quest 🥲⚡

Antoine Coutrot @antoinecoutrot.bsky.social · Dec 9

⚠️ New preprint !
« Social determinants of cognitive aging trajectories across 39 countries »
Some people in their 80s have cognitive abilities similar to many 30-year-olds, others are severely diminished.  How comes? 
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
A short 🧵👇 1/7

Older women participating to a race at the Senior Games 2023.

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GLITCHERS @glitchers.bsky.social · Dec 10

Orca cat is in the studio today 🤟

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GLITCHERS @glitchers.bsky.social · Dec 9

Best get back to the pitch deck, here's a GLITCHERS pet, follow for more pet pics and some talk about early intervention for dementia 🧠🐱

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GLITCHERS @glitchers.bsky.social · Dec 9

Now, we're focusing on early Alzheimer's/Dementia detection using a spatial navigation test wrapped in a game - Sea Hero Quest.

It can accurately measure navigation performance throughout life, making it an invaluable assessment tool for dementia prevention - woah!

Read more here: glitchers.com

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