World’s largest study of spatial navigation offers free study platform to researchers

World's largest study of spatial navigation offers free study platform to researchers
Credit: Alzheimer’s Research UK

After a successful journey gathering data from 4.3 million participating players, the groundbreaking citizen science app Sea Hero Quest is now available for studies of cognition and spatial navigation.

Sea Hero Quest started out in 2016 as a consumer mobile game to help scientists understand navigational abilities across the life course. By building a picture of how navigation ability changes in the general population, players could contribute to research identifying changes characteristic of early Alzheimer’s disease.

Originally led by Deutsche Telekom alongside Alzheimer’s Research UK and leaders in gaming, technology, academia…

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