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As a graduate student, Steven Weisberg helped to develop a university campus — albeit, a virtual one. Called Virtual Silcton, the software tests spatial navigation skills, teaching people the layout of a virtual campus and then challenging them to point in the direction of specific landmarks1. It has been used by more than a dozen laboratories, says Weisberg, who is now a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Florida in Gainesville.

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Nature 602, 172-173 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-00217-0

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