Centric Cities Podcast

This episode was originally recorded in April 2017 as we Dr. Hugo Spiers and I were preparing for the Conscious Cities conference the month after. Dr. Spiers acts as lead scientific advisor to the Centric Lab to we took this opportunity to sit down and explore where neuroscience is and how it’s being applied to industry. Dr Spiers is a reader in Neuroscience at University College London where is he is director of the Spatial Cognition research group. Dr. Spiers is also one of the leads of the Ecological Brain project, a 4 year PhD program funded by the Leverhulme Trust. It is a world first research grant focused on understanding the scientific opportunities of applying neuroscience based technologies and theories in the real world, where it has previously only been tested with significance in the lab. Dr. Spiers is a great guy and one thing that really sets him apart is his articulation of such a complex field of research. If you’re interested in reading more about Dr. Spiers work he regularly releases his a