Sentences with phrase «new spatial memory»
When the hippocampus forms a new spatial memory, it receives sensory information about your current location from a brain region called the entorhinal cortex.
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To determine whether infection with Candida affected any neurological responses, all participants in the new study took a 30 - minute assessment of cognitive tasks to measure immediate memory, delayed memory, attention skills, use of language and visual - spatial skills.
This brain region plays a critical role in learning new information, forming spatial memories and storing short - term memories as long - term ones.
New research into Rett syndrome therapeutics suggests that a small molecule already reported to improve respiratory problems associated with the disease may also improve spatial memory and motor skill defects.
To test the long - term spatial memory of mice, the scientists trained the rodents to spot a new object placed in a controlled environment where two objects of similar shape and volume stand.
A powerful new tool for the study of spatial memory was today described in Nature as a significant improvement over the current gold standard, the Morris Water Maze.
The hippocampus, a brain structure known to play a role in memory and spatial navigation, is essential to one's ability to recognize previously encountered events, objects, or people — a phenomenon known as recognition memory — according to new research from the departments of Neurosurgery and Psychology in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
Since the discovery (in a human patient named H.M.) that hippocampal removal can lead to the inability to form new memories, the hippocampus has been studied as one of the primary sites of memory formation in the brain.12 While it has also been known since O'Keefe and Dostrovsky's initial experiments that the hippocampus plays a basic role in spatial navigation, how and why this tiny portion of the brain can host both spatial maps and complex memories has remained poorly understood.
«Warning signs are changes in mood or personality, withdrawal from work or social activities, decreased or poor judgment, misplacing things and losing the ability to retrace steps, new problems with words both in speaking and writing, trouble understanding visual or spatial relationships, confusion with time or place, difficulty completing familiar tasks, challenge in planning or solving problems and memory loss,» according to The Alzheimer's Association.
Research at the University of New South Wales suggests that high - sugar diets can lead to memory loss — in fact rats fed a high sugar diet suffered deterioration in memory and spatial recognition in less than one week.
They also map new pathways for old muscle memory and find new spatial directions for limbs and body parts.
The new choreography is based on fragmented memories and photographs of the original piece, and draws from principles of dance from the»70s including improvisation, responsiveness, straight lines, and circular shapes that Beuchat termed «spatial corridors.»
The exhibition Deutschland 8 will be on view in Beijing from September 16th until October 31st, 2017 at the Imperial Ancestral Temple Art Museum (Traces of Memory — Masterworks of Contemporary German Painting from September 17th until October 20th), CAFA Art Museum (Paradigms of Art — Contemporary Art from Germany from September 16 until October 29th), Today Art Museum (Arrested Time — New Media Art from Germany from September 17th November 12th), Whitebox Art Center (Next Generation — Young German Art from September 15th until October 31st), Beijing Minsheng Museum (Language of Photography and the Duesseldorf School from September 16th until October 22nd), Red Brick Museum (Prologue — German Informel Art from September 16th until October 22th), Yuan Art Museum (Dialogue — The Spatial Dimension of Colour from September 16th until October 31st).
Like learning a new language, learning how to play an instrument has a proven impact on brain development, showing that «learning to play a musical instrument not only increases grey matter volume in various brain regions, but can also strengthen the long - range connections between them» and that» musical training also enhances verbal memory, spatial reasoning, and literacy skills».