/channels/news_feeds/all/term/University%20of%20East%20Anglia/rss en /channels/channels/news/nordic-nations-north-americans-and-antipodeans-rank-top-navigation-skills-288652 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>People in Nordic countries, North America, Australia, and New Zealand have the best spatial navigational abilities, according to a new study led by UCL and the University of East Anglia.</p> <p>Researchers assessed data from over half a million people in 57 countries who played a specially-designed mobile game, which has been developed to aid understanding into spatial navigation, a key indicator in Alzheimer’s disease.</p> <p>With so many people taking part the team were able to reveal that spatial navigation ability across all countries declines steadily across adulthood.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/man-on-road.jpg?itok=AfTwz2vO" width="160" height="107" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">9 </span><span class="month">August </span><span class="year">2018</span></div></div></div></div></div> Thu, 09 Aug 2018 18:59:44 +0000 webfull 139506 at /channels