Mario and his makers once again assert their dominance
of spatial navigation games, displaying a rude abundance of ideas to delight, surprise and celebrate innocence and playfulness.
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.
The neural bases
of spatial navigation and episodic memory 6.
In addition, the Honeycomb Maze enables researchers to study the correlation
of spatial navigation performance with the activity of place cells in the hippocampus where there is a map of an animal's location in space.
«It takes the playful pleasure
of spatial navigation that people are familiar with from games, with the same kinds of controls and feedback, and applies it to the exploration of information about games,» said Noah Wardrip - Fruin, professor of computational media at UC Santa Cruz.
Not exact matches
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.
That's why the MRIs
of the memory contestants showed activation in the brain areas associated with visual imagery and
spatial navigation.
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.
Native Knowledge Over the years Spelke has conjured up many other elegant and productive investigations on object and facial recognition, motion,
spatial navigation, and numerosity (grasping
of numerical relationships).
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.
Using two complementary approaches to reduce the deposits
of amyloid - beta in the brain rather than either approach alone improved
spatial navigation and memory in a mouse model
of Alzheimer's disease.
«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.»
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.
Thus,
spatial orientation and
navigation are among the most complex abilities
of the human mind.
In the brains
of older adults, they detected an unstable activity in an area that is central for
spatial navigation.
This might be a cause
of why many senior people tend to have troubles with
spatial navigation.»
A key to the connection between smell, memory and
navigation is that olfactory bulbs have a strong neural link to the brain's hippocampus, which creates
spatial maps
of our environment.
In healthy volunteers given these instructions, regions
of the brain involved in motor planning,
spatial navigation and imagery light up.
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.
The subjects completed a
spatial learning task that consisted
of navigation through a virtual environment to deliver passengers to stores (Fig. 1 in the Supplementary Appendix).
The bottom sets
of scans obtained from the patient (Panel C) and the control subject (Panel D) show activation (blue) resulting from the
spatial imagery task (cued with the word «
navigation») as compared with rest periods, as well as the time course
of the peak voxel in the parahippocampal gyrus.
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.
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).
A large body
of evidence indicates that theta rhythm is likely involved in
spatial learning and
navigation (Buzsáki, 2005).
The researchers studied the hippocampus, taking a closer look at the newly formed brain cells and the state
of blood vessels in the region
of the brain that plays an important role in emotions,
spatial navigation, and memory.
People who drank 14 to 21 units per week were three times more likely to have damage to the part
of the brain involved in memory and
spatial navigation.
The idea that the activity
of a place cell is predictive and can be modified by learning and the behavior
of other animals may make it easier to conceptualize an all - encompassing framework that ties together the hippocampus» role in
spatial navigation with its well - established role in learning and memory formation.
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.
Studies in my lab combine behavior, neurophysiology and acoustics to investigate the mechanisms
of auditory, visual and somatosensory information processing, natural scene perception,
spatial memory and
navigation, acoustic communication, sensorimotor integration and flight control.
It focuses in particular on the memory
of place and direction that underlies our
spatial navigation skills.
Results show that direct stimulation
of the entorhinal area successfully improved hippocampal - dependent memory across a wide range
of memory tasks (verbal recall,
spatial navigation, face - name memory, and person / object recognition) with stimulation site (entorhinal white / gray) as the critical determinant
of subsequent memory performance independent
of antiepileptic medication (on / off), side (left / right) or type (macro / micro)
of stimulation.
Playing video games a moderate amount
of time does build digital reading and
navigation skills and
spatial skills.
The environments are connected in such a way that it makes
spatial sense — it has to, since
navigation depends sense
of direction and memory.
Playing first person shooters is found to strengthen a range
of cognitive skills such as
spatial navigation, reasoning, memory and perception, according to several studies reviewed in the article.
Sea Hero Quest VR was developed in partnership with a number
of world - leading dementia scientists,
spatial navigation consultants and data security specialists.
The works are neither purely pictorial nor truly sculptural, and the tension between the expectation and actuality
of presentation, between their simultaneous flatness and three - dimensionality, serves to defamiliarize the white cube setting, demanding from the viewer a constant
navigation of his own
spatial experience.
In the cases
of spatial awareness and
navigation, gay male brains seem to be wired like female brains.
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.»