Her honors thesis is currently being developed through an emphasis
on the spatial memory aspect of the project.
Spatial navigation depends
on spatial memory.
Effects of sucrose and high fructose corn syrup consumption
on spatial memory function and hippocampal neuroinflammation in adolescent rats
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.
However, at age 9 months and 12 months, mice
on the extra virgin olive oil - enriched diet performed significantly better
on tests designed to evaluate working
memory,
spatial memory, and learning abilities.
The researchers found that after injury only mice with intact neurogenesis could develop an efficient strategy to find the hidden platform, a skill that is known to rely
on spatial learning and
memory.
In addition, they scored worse
on the
Spatial Recall Test 10/36, a visual
memory test.
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.
Mice have proven to be a particularly good model for studies relevant to humans, Magnusson said,
on such topics as aging,
spatial memory, obesity and other issues.
«My lab works
on the neural bases of learning and
memory,» says Pozzo - Miller, «so we decided to test if LM22A - 4 was able to improve
spatial discrimination deficits by enhancing synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus, the brain region responsible for
spatial learning and
memory.»
The studies» results show that video games can be either detrimental or beneficial to the brain's
spatial memory system depending not only
on the navigation strategy players use but also
on the video game genre they choose.
As in the first study, a group of young mice carrying the human gene APOE4 showed cognitive impairment
on the behavioral level — in other words, they showed signs of damage
on the level of
spatial memory.
These differences were found in parts of the DNA that turn genes
on and off in specific brain regions, in this case a brain region important for
spatial memory.
The next day, the same rodents did not succeed the
spatial memory task learned
on the previous day.
The researchers were thus able to show that the
spatial information generated
on the antenna is maintained in the macroglomerulus and conveyed to the mushroom body, a putative centre for
spatial memory formation.
There was no difference between mutant and normal mice when it came to investigating an empty cage, however, and the mutants even outperformed normal mice
on a test of
spatial learning and
memory, suggesting that their deficit was specific for social behavior.
As with earlier
spatial memory experiments conducted by Kahana's group, this study involved playing a simple video game
on a bedside computer.
To avoid confounding the episodic
memories of the items delivered with the
spatial memory of a store's location, the researchers excluded trips that were directly to or from that store when placing it
on the neural map.
Harding, a medicinal chemist, and Wright, a neuroscientist, have been working
on their compound since 1992, when they started looking at the impact of the peptide angiotensin IV
on the hippocampus, a brain region involved in
spatial learning and short - term
memory.
Results from this two - day water maze show that AD mice take considerably longer to find the hidden platform
on Day 2 than AD mice treated with J147 for three months (Figure 1A), demonstrating that J147 significantly improved the
spatial navigational
memory in aged, transgenic AD mice.
Scott Herrick - «The effect of hippocampal lesions
on spatial and non-
spatial declarative
memory tasks in rats» (Advisor: S. Ramus)
We have previously shown ex-vivo its beneficial effect
on synaptic transmission and plasticity in a mouse model of the OPHN1 loss of function.Here, we report that chronic treatment in adult mouse with Fasudil, is able to counteract vertical and horizontal hyperactivities, restores recognition
memory and limits the brain ventricular dilatation observed in Ophn1 - / y However, deficits in working and
spatial memories are partially or not rescued by the treatment.
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.
The results showed a reduction of symptoms in the mice who were fed with a ketogenic diet: they had normalized their social interactions and
spatial working
memory and they also weighed less and had lower blood glucose levels than the first group who was
on a regular diet.
[15] One study has shown that consumption of dark chocolate improved performance
on cognitive tests which included the abstract reasoning test, the scanning and tracking test, the working
memory test, the visual -
spatial memory test, and the organization test.
In a study conducted in 2008, women placed
on a low - carbohydrate diet for 28 days suffered from impaired reaction time and reduced
spatial memory compared to women placed
on a high - carbohydrate diet.
Subjects were divided into two groups and tested
on a variety of numeracy - and
memory - related
memory tasks including
spatial recall and random number generation to identify a baseline level of cognitive performance.
One of the important quotes is: «At this point, it is unclear whether an increase or decrease in grey matter of the hippocampus of VGPs could have an impact
on cognition associated with the hippocampus, such as
spatial, 22 relational45 and episodic
memory.»
In a research conducted jointly by the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and Charite University Medicine St. Hedwig - Krankenhaus, it was found that players of Super Mario 64
on a Nintendo XXL had «significant» increased gray matter responsible for
spatial orientation,
memory formation, and strategic planning, as well as fine motor skills.
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.»
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.
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).
Persuasion is dependent
on memory and
memory is best secured by a
spatial imagination, hence the cartography.
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».
In combination with this stimulation paradigm, we evaluated the impact of such stimulation
on a diverse range of psychological and physiological functions later in life, including
spatial working
memory, social competitive ability, functional brain asymmetry, and selective hormonal responses to unexpected events.