The Struggling Scientists
The Struggling Scientists
Suzanne and Jayron
Episode 27: Cutting Edge Research?!?..... Can you gamefy your way into Nature?
29 minutes Posted Apr 4, 2022 at 4:30 am.
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Today we discuss a very interesting paper recently published in Nature. This paper proposes that people that grew up in the city are less good at navigating than people who grew up in the countryside. And even more excitingly they investigated this in a very interesting way... with a mobile game! Listen to this episode to learn more!

Paper: Entropy of city street networks linked to future spatial navigation ability by Coutrot et al., 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04486-7

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