Hugo J. Spiers

13.2k total citations · 6 hit papers
107 papers, 8.1k citations indexed

About

Hugo J. Spiers is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Automotive Engineering and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Hugo J. Spiers has authored 107 papers receiving a total of 8.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 67 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 50 papers in Automotive Engineering and 21 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Hugo J. Spiers's work include Memory and Neural Mechanisms (53 papers), Spatial Cognition and Navigation (50 papers) and Sleep and Wakefulness Research (17 papers). Hugo J. Spiers is often cited by papers focused on Memory and Neural Mechanisms (53 papers), Spatial Cognition and Navigation (50 papers) and Sleep and Wakefulness Research (17 papers). Hugo J. Spiers collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, France and United States. Hugo J. Spiers's co-authors include Eleanor A. Maguire, Neil Burgess, Jon S. Simons, Tom T. Hartley, Katherine Woollett, Eva Zita Patai, Joshua B. Julian, Russell A. Epstein, Michael Hornberger and John O’Keefe and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Hugo J. Spiers

105 papers receiving 7.9k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Prefrontal and medial temporal lobe interactions in long-term memory

2003 716 citations Hugo J. Spiers et al. profile →
The Well-Worn Route and the Path Less Traveled

2003 624 citations Tom T. Hartley, Eleanor A. Maguire et al. Neuron profile →
The cognitive map in humans: spatial navigation and beyond

2017 516 citations Russell A. Epstein, Eva Zita Patai et al. Nature Neuroscience profile →
London taxi drivers and bus drivers: A structural MRI and neuropsychological analysis

2006 501 citations Eleanor A. Maguire, Hugo J. Spiers et al. profile →
A Temporoparietal and Prefrontal Network for Retrieving the Spatial Context of Lifelike Events

2001 416 citations Neil Burgess, Eleanor A. Maguire et al. profile →
Hippocampal place cells construct reward related sequences through unexplored space

2015 187 citations Demis Hassabis, Hugo J. Spiers et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Hugo J. Spiers United Kingdom	42	5.9k	2.1k	1.6k	1.0k	1.0k	107	8.1k
Arne D. Ekstrom United States	50	6.6k 1.1×	1.0k 0.5×	2.7k 1.7×	739 0.7×	641 0.6×	121	8.1k
Christian F. Doeller Germany	42	4.7k 0.8×	930 0.4×	1.5k 1.0×	721 0.7×	644 0.6×	100	6.0k
Russell A. Epstein United States	44	7.6k 1.3×	1.7k 0.8×	1.1k 0.7×	913 0.9×	1.1k 1.1×	98	9.1k
R. Shayna Rosenbaum Canada	40	4.5k 0.8×	559 0.3×	1.2k 0.8×	1.3k 1.2×	762 0.7×	118	5.5k
Thomas Wolbers Germany	37	3.0k 0.5×	1.8k 0.9×	439 0.3×	674 0.7×	789 0.8×	88	4.4k
Véronique D. Bohbot Canada	34	2.8k 0.5×	1.2k 0.6×	857 0.6×	512 0.5×	465 0.5×	74	4.3k
Giuseppe Iaria Canada	36	3.3k 0.6×	1.5k 0.7×	400 0.3×	753 0.7×	1.0k 1.0×	109	4.8k
Oliver Braddick United Kingdom	60	7.8k 1.3×	530 0.3×	1.1k 0.7×	1.3k 1.3×	853 0.8×	279	11.4k
Albert Postma Netherlands	49	5.1k 0.9×	1.5k 0.7×	262 0.2×	1.6k 1.5×	2.4k 2.3×	251	8.7k
Lawrence M. Parsons United States	42	7.2k 1.2×	973 0.5×	425 0.3×	1.7k 1.6×	1.7k 1.6×	59	10.1k

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Brunec, Iva K., et al.. (2025). Expert navigators deploy rational complexity–based decision precaching for large-scale real-world planning. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(4). e2407814122–e2407814122. 4 indexed citations

Goodroe, Sarah, Christoffer J. Gahnstrom, Jan Wiener, et al.. (2025). Predicting real-world navigation performance from a virtual navigation task in older adults. PLoS ONE. 20(1). e0317026–e0317026. 1 indexed citations

Coutrot, Antoine, et al.. (2024). Combining patient-lesion and big data approaches to reveal hippocampal contributions to spatial memory and navigation. iScience. 27(6). 109977–109977. 1 indexed citations

Zisch, Fiona, Antoine Coutrot, William de Cothi, et al.. (2024). Real and virtual environments have comparable spatial memory distortions after scale and geometric transformations. Spatial Cognition and Computation. 24(2). 115–143. 6 indexed citations

Coutrot, Antoine, Jan Wiener, Ruth Dalton, et al.. (2023). No link between handedness and spatial navigation: evidence from over 400 000 participants in 41 countries. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 290(2008). 20231514–20231514. 2 indexed citations

Commins, Seán, Antoine Coutrot, Michael Hornberger, Hugo J. Spiers, & Rafael de Andrade Moral. (2023). Examining individual learning patterns using generalised linear mixed models. Behavior Research Methods. 56(5). 4930–4945.

Coutrot, Antoine, Mary Hegarty, Jan Wiener, et al.. (2023). Cultural determinants of the gap between self-estimated navigation ability and wayfinding performance: evidence from 46 countries. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 10844–10844. 12 indexed citations

Elias, Uri, et al.. (2023). A neural circuit for spatial orientation derived from brain lesions. Cerebral Cortex. 34(1). 3 indexed citations

West, Greg L., et al.. (2023). Landmark-dependent Navigation Strategy Declines across the Human Life-Span: Evidence from Over 37,000 Participants. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 35(3). 452–467. 14 indexed citations

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Coutrot, Antoine, Alpár S. Lázár, Marcus Richards, et al.. (2022). Reported sleep duration reveals segmentation of the adult life-course into three phases. Nature Communications. 13(1). 7697–7697. 37 indexed citations

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Coutrot, Antoine, Ed Manley, Sarah Goodroe, et al.. (2022). Entropy of city street networks linked to future spatial navigation ability. Nature. 604(7904). 104–110. 107 indexed citations

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Feld, Gordon B., et al.. (2022). Sleep targets highly connected global and local nodes to aid consolidation of learned graph networks. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 15086–15086. 5 indexed citations

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Spiers, Hugo J., Antoine Coutrot, & Michael Hornberger. (2022). How the environment shapes our ability to navigate. Clinical and Translational Medicine. 12(6). e928–e928. 4 indexed citations

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Spiers, Hugo J., Antoine Coutrot, & Michael Hornberger. (2021). Explaining World‐Wide Variation in Navigation Ability from Millions of People: Citizen Science Project Sea Hero Quest. Topics in Cognitive Science. 15(1). 120–138. 62 indexed citations

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Yeşiltepe, Demet, Ruth Dalton, Ayşe Özbil Torun, et al.. (2019). A Wayfinding Research in Virtual Environments : The effect of spatial structure and different conditions on movement. UEA Digital Repository (University of East Anglia). 1 indexed citations

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Epstein, Russell A., Eva Zita Patai, Joshua B. Julian, & Hugo J. Spiers. (2017). The cognitive map in humans: spatial navigation and beyond. Nature Neuroscience. 20(11). 1504–1513. 516 indexed citations breakdown →

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Javadi, Amir‐Homayoun, et al.. (2014). The Hippocampus and Entorhinal Cortex Encode the Path and Euclidean Distances to Goals during Navigation. Current Biology. 24(12). 1331–1340. 185 indexed citations

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Mavros, Panagiotis, et al.. (2014). A mobile application to record synchronised behavioural and EEG data during real-world wayfinding. Kent Academic Repository (University of Kent). 1 indexed citations

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Chadwick, Martin J., et al.. (2014). A Goal Direction Signal in the Human Entorhinal/Subicular Region. Current Biology. 25(1). 87–92. 93 indexed citations

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Hartley, Tom T., Eleanor A. Maguire, Hugo J. Spiers, & Neil Burgess. (2003). The Well-Worn Route and the Path Less Traveled. Neuron. 37(5). 877–888. 624 indexed citations breakdown →

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