⚠️New review on video games for cognitive citizen science! "From Players to Participants: Citizen Science and Video Games to Understand Cognition" arxiv.org/abs/2604.24321

My favourite example of the benefits of using video games in cognitive science:

Max from @glitchers.bsky.social (creator of Sea Hero Quest) and @edgardubourg.bsky.social (working at the interface between game dev and scientists) provide insights into creating successful video games for scientific research and explain why this approach is still so rare.

⚠️New review straight out of the oven! "Spatial navigation in preclinical Alzheimer's disease: A review" arxiv.org/abs/2603.23082 We focus on spatial navigation as a sensitive cognitive marker in preclinical AD, compiling evidence from cognitively unimpaired individuals with positive AD biomarkers.

New lab preprint! Human Navigation Behaviour and Brain Dynamics in Real-world Contexts with co-authors: @pfvelasco.bsky.social and @antoinecoutrot.bsky.social arxiv.org/pdf/2603.11347

Thanks to @cnn.com for covering our research on London taxi drivers in their new, rather chatty, format 'Creators' Taxi driver Tom Scullion is the star of this piece. He trains others to learn the knowledge an has so many insights into that process. #neuroskyence www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7df...

Great article from @antoinecoutrot.bsky.social which mentions Sea Hero Quest. "Video games are no longer just a pastime. They are becoming a mirror of the brain, capable of stimulating it, treating it, and helping us better understand it"

We took Sea Hero Quest to two conferences one month apart. @techcrunch.com Disrupt & @unity.com Unite. One a focused game development conference and another big tech..

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

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?

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:

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

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:

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

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:

🚨 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

⚓ 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... 🧠

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

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:

🧠 ⚓ 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

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.

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.

💡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 🧠

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🧵

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:

⚠️ 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...

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.

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

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...

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

Orca cat is in the studio today 🤟

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 🧠🐱

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

We recently collaborated with biodiversity researchers on a prototype to try and answer some complex questions when it comes to landscape restoration, read more on our blog: www.glitchers.com/blog/restore...

HIYA! Welcome to our Bluesky page excited to share what we've been up to the last 11 years. We are GLITCHERS we make games in collaboration with science. Not serious games or gamification - just super fun games that happen to be able to collect super sensitive data for research 🧠