Hugo Spiers

BIOGRAPHY

ACADEMIC POSITION:
Group Leader at the Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience at University College London.

EDUCATION:
Dr Spiers gained his PhD at the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience in the research group of Neil Burgess and John O'Keefe. After post-doctoral fellowships at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge (with Kim Graham) and the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging (with Eleanor Maguire) he was awarded a Wellcome Trust Advanced Training Fellowship to learn single unit recording.

RESEARCH INTERESTS
My current research is focused on understanding the neural basis of spatial cognition and memory. I am interested in how different brain structures (in particular the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex) allow us to perceive, imagine, remember information. I use functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), in vivo single unit recording and neuropsychological testing in my laboratory.

HOME PAGE
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/spierslab/