Sentences with phrase «for spatial navigation»

Research suggests that some of the brain regions responsible for forming and storing memory of past events, such as the hippocampus and the entorhinal cortex, are the same ones responsible for spatial navigation, implying a deep connection between the two processes.

The hippocampus is responsible for both our short - term and long - term memory, and also for spatial navigation.

In the brains of older adults, they detected an unstable activity in an area that is central for spatial navigation.

This is particularly applicable for spatial navigation.

Not exact matches

Despite their bad rap, and please don't tell my tweens and teen this, gaming for 30 minutes a day has been shown to enrich your brain's strategic planning, spatial navigation, motor skills and more.

In a report on the research published online last week in the journal Brain, Behavior and Immunity, the investigators say that the part of the brain responsible for memory and spatial navigation (the hippocampus) was smaller over the long term in the male offspring exposed to the overactive immune system in the womb.

Dr. Michael M. Yartsev, Research Associate and C.V. Starr Fellow at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute at Princeton University receives the US$ 25,000 research prize for his work using the bat as an unusual animal model to study the underlying neural mechanisms of spatial memory and navigation in the mammalian brain.

The hippocampus — a region crucially involved in forming «episodic» memories (event recall) and spatial memory (for physical navigation)-- is especially affected by aging, with accompanying declines in the ability to learn and remember; it also deteriorates early on when afflicted by Alzheimer's.

In May researchers at McGill University reported that the gene responsible for creating cells» protein - building machinery is more frequently methylated in the hippocampus — the brain region responsible for short - term memory and spatial navigation — of depressed suicide victims who suffered child abuse than in the brains of nonsuicide victims who were not abused.

«Humans» built - in GPS is our 3 - D sense of smell: Like homing pigeons, humans have a nose for navigation because our brains are wired to convert smells into spatial information.»

Like homing pigeons, humans have a nose for navigation because our brains are wired to convert smells into spatial information, new research from the University of California, Berkeley, shows.

Conversely, theta oscillations have been correlated to various voluntary behaviors (exploration, spatial navigation, etc.) and alert states (goose bumps, etc.) in rats (Vanderwolf, 1969), suggesting that it may reflect the integration of sensory information with motor output (for review, see Bland & Oddie, 2001).

By working our the details of spatial navigation in primate memory brain regions, our work will lay the foundation for understanding how these mechanisms underlie the formation of complex memories, not only in monkeys, but in humans as well.

Specifically, we hypothesized that older adults who trained on the 3D - platform game Super Mario 64 for 6 months would benefit from its prominent spatial navigation components [15, 17].

The main concept and functionality are however clear, as the «Lightwear» glasses are backed by a «Lightpack» engine that drives the «spatial computing platform» and a handheld controller equipped with six degrees of freedom for «effortless navigation.»

Larger numbers on the navigation variables indicate better navigation, and larger numbers for spatial anxiety indicates greater anxiety.