Sentences with phrase «in spatial memories which»

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The participants in the study took a variety of tests, which measured different aspects of their thinking abilities including memory span and verbal and spatial abilities.

They found that, within the first three days of injury, fish in the concussion group were slower to find a school of fish with which they previously swam, a measure of spatial memory which is impaired in other animal models of concussion and human patients.

Within six hours of viewing this film, the period during which memories are thought to be consolidated for long - term storage, test subjects were randomly assigned to one of three tasks: answering trivia; playing Tetris, a 1980s video game that involves optimizing visual - spatial cues; or engaging in nothing in particular.

One explanation is that the plant sterol diet increased formation of reactive oxygen species in the hippocampus, whereas the Fortasyn diet, which yielded the best results in the spatial memory task, tended to have an opposite effect.

In addition, regions within the temporal and parietal cortex, which support memory and attention, as well as brain structures within the occipital lobe, which process visual and spatial information, were engaged.

To date, several other explanations of math disability have been suggested, such as deficits in spatial short - term memory, which could cause difficulties keeping numbers in mind.

They then conducted spatial memory tests in which the mice needed to navigate a series of mazes.

Here, we examined the extent to which performance in the Morris water maze — the most frequently used behavioral assay of spatial learning and memory in rodents — translates to humans.

Using a video game in which people navigate through a virtual town delivering objects to specific locations, a team of neuroscientists from the University of Pennsylvania and Freiburg University has discovered how brain cells that encode spatial information form «geotags» for specific memories and are activated immediately before those memories are recalled.

We've worked hard to see how we could bridge the gap between the idea that the hippocampus is a purely spatial memory in the rat to its broader function as an episodic memory system in humans, which is the memory you have for something you did at a particular time and place.

Dwelling on the notion of memory palaces — a mental spatial visualization of familiar places — the narrator of the film introduces the viewer to a vision of monochromacy, a condition in which only one type of cone cell is stimulated in colour vision.

Yabut defined «peridementia» as the period in which the subject starts to have a mild version of the loss of intellectual capacity that is associated with dementia — i.e., impairment of attention, orientation, memory, judgment, language, motor and spatial skills, and function.