Explaining world‐wide variation in navigation ability from millions of people: citizen science project sea hero quest

HJ Spiers, A Coutrot… - Topics in cognitive …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Navigation ability varies widely across humans. Prior studies have reported that being
younger and a male has an advantage for navigation ability. However, these studies have …

[HTML][HTML] The hearing hippocampus

AJ Billig, M Lad, W Sedley, TD Griffiths - Progress in neurobiology, 2022 - Elsevier
The hippocampus has a well-established role in spatial and episodic memory but a broader
function has been proposed including aspects of perception and relational processing …

Systemic inflammatory markers in relation to cognitive function and measures of brain atrophy: a Mendelian randomization study

J Luo, S le Cessie, GJ Blauw, C Franceschi… - Geroscience, 2022 - Springer
Observational studies have implied associations between multiple cytokines and cognitive
decline, anti-inflammatory drugs however did not yield any protective effects on cognitive …

Sex and menstrual cycle influence human spatial navigation strategies and performance

A Brown, F Burles, G Iaria, G Einstein, M Moscovitch - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Which facets of human spatial navigation do sex and menstrual cycle influence? To answer
this question, a cross-sectional online study of reproductive age women and men was …

London taxi drivers: A review of neurocognitive studies and an exploration of how they build their cognitive map of London

EM Griesbauer, E Manley, JM Wiener… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Licensed London taxi drivers have been found to show changes in the gray matter density of
their hippocampus over the course of training and decades of navigation in London (UK) …

Release of cognitive and multimodal MRI data including real-world tasks and hippocampal subfield segmentations

IA Clark, EA Maguire - Scientific Data, 2023 - nature.com
We share data from N= 217 healthy adults (mean age 29 years, range 20–41; 109 females,
108 males) who underwent extensive cognitive assessment and neuroimaging to examine …

Differential associations of visual memory with hippocampal subfields in subjective cognitive decline and amnestic mild cognitive impairment

Y Huang, L Huang, Y Wang, Y Liu, CYZ Lo, Q Guo - BMC geriatrics, 2022 - Springer
Background Although previous studies have demonstrated that the hippocampus plays a
role in verbal memory, the role of hippocampal subfields in visual memory is uncertain …

Diversity of daily activities is associated with greater hippocampal volume

EJ Urban-Wojcik, S Lee, DW Grupe, L Quinlan… - Cognitive, Affective, & …, 2022 - Springer
Greater engagement in a range of daily activities is associated with better cognitive
functioning (Lee et al., Lee et al., 2020). The hippocampus, a subcortical brain structure …

Posterior hippocampal CA2/3 volume is associated with autobiographical memory recall ability in lower performing individuals

IA Clark, MA Dalton, EA Maguire - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
People vary substantially in their capacity to recall past experiences, known as
autobiographical memories. Here we investigated whether the volumes of specific …

A meta‐analysis of the relation between hippocampal volume and memory ability in typically developing children and adolescents

M Botdorf, KL Canada, T Riggins - Hippocampus, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Memory is supported by a network of brain regions, with the hippocampus serving a critical
role in this cognitive process. Previous meta‐analyses on the association between …