A PACKED Bedales Theatre heard Professor Eleanor Maguire of University College in London deliver the annual Science Eckersley lecture – The past, present and future of memory.
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Less than three-quarters of A&E arrivals at Portsmouth Hospitals seen within four hoursJust two-thirds of A&E arrivals at Hampshire Hospitals Trust seen within four hoursNearly all minor injury unit arrivals at Hampshire and Isle of Wight Trust seen within four hoursStudents, staff, parents and members of the local community heard that Professor Maguire has transformed understanding of how the brain supports navigation, memory and imagining the future.
During the lecture on April 27, she featured her memory research with London cab drivers – famous for memorising London traffic routes as part of the assessment test called The Knowledge they need to pass to gain a cab licence.
She also discussed the use of gaming, mobile brain scanners, Google Deep Mind, the World Memory Championships, ancient Roman memory strategies, dreams, depression and the use of exercise to stimulate the production of new neurons.
The Eckersley Lecture is named after brothers and former Bedales students Peter and Thomas Eckersley.