Sentences with phrase «spatial learning»

But this is the first time they have found evidence of that link in spatial learning.

It also has a positive effect on spatial learning.

For instance, studies in mice have revealed that running enhances spatial learning.

These developmental defects in the wiring of neural circuits cause very selective alterations in spatial learning and memory in adult mice.

An object and place association - dissociation - association binding model (ADA) of spatial learning integrates object - based (object permanence) with space - based accounts of the A-not-B task Show more

Connecting gestures with the mathematical concepts being learned by students creates an opportunity for the information to be retained as well as increases the ability for spatial learning (Abrahamson, McDougall, Ross)(Newcombe 2010).

In the water T - maze test, which measures spatial learning during acquisition and cognitive flexibility during recall, 16 month - old C3 - deficient mice performed significantly better compared to WT controls.

In a 2014 study in rats, researchers at the University of California found that the neurons in a brain region associated with spatial learning behaved completely differently in virtual environments compared to in real ones, with more than half of the neurons shutting down while in VR.

«Using this combined approach, we were able to reduce the levels of amyloid - beta, but, importantly, restored spatial learning and memory to the level observed in healthy mice,» Jankowsky said.

Impressively, rats in the astragalus group showed dramatic reductions in anxiety compared to the control group, along with improved spatial learning, memory, and even immune response.

An object and place association - dissociation - association binding model (ADA) of spatial learning integrates object - based (object permanence) with space - based accounts of the A-not-B task

Garthe A, Huang Z, Kaczmarek L, Filipkowski RK, Kempermann G. Not all water mazes are created equal: cyclin D2 knockout mice with constitutively suppressed adult hippocampal neurogenesis do show specific spatial learning deficits.

Mice bred to have autismlike symptoms were injected with low doses of antianxiety drugs and showed notable behavioral shifts: improved social interaction, decreased repetitive behaviors and better spatial learning.

«Many species of intertidal rock - pool fish have excellent homing capabilities backed up by fantastic spatial learning,» says Culum Brown at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.

Ilana Witten didn't set out to study spatial learning.

In the future, the researchers are interested in examining how the neural substrates of social and spatial learning differ in mouse models of autism.

Silva's team also found that in normal mice, spatial learning induces an increase in GABA.

Analysis of the distance, latency, and cumulative search error (CSE) rank - summary scores revealed that MCI - AD patients and hAPP mice were significantly impaired in this task (Table 1 and Figure 1, B — D and F — I), consistent with a deficit in hippocampus - dependent spatial learning.

Baker, K.; Wray, S.; Ritter, R.; Mason, S.; Lanthorn, T.; Savelieva, K. Male and female Fmr1 knockout mice on C57 albino background exhibit spatial learning and memory impairments.

On the other hand, immunoneutralizing VEGF (Genentech - Roche, MTA) impaired spatial learning performance and neuronal activity of CA3 hippocampus neurons.

But as time went on, some educators began casually to conflate «multiple intelligences» with «learning styles» — to sub out «spatial intelligence» for a «spatial learning style» or «bodily - kinesthetic intelligence» for a «bodily - kinesthetic learning style.»

Not only is spatial learning important in learning math, but it is also helpful in the broader STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) community.

Blocks and beyond: Strengthening early math and science skills through spatial learning.

In an animal model, treadmill exercise improved symptoms of hyperactivity disorder, including an improvement in spatial learning memory (Kim et al. 2011).

Both hippocampal synaptic density and LTP as well as contextual fear conditioning and spatial learning vary as a function of maternal care in the rat [10], [15].

Dr Kym Simoncini takes spatial learning to the floor of an early childhood education and care service to examine the ways educators are already facilitating STEM learning in this 2017 Live Wires Forum presentation.

They worked in Richard Morris's group at the Centre for Neuroscience studying the role of long - term potentiation in the hippocampus for spatial learning.

«This is a well - established method for measuring spatial learning and memory,» study first author Takeru Shima says.

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.

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.

R451C mutant mice showed impaired social interactions but enhanced spatial learning abilities.

This reduces brain inflammation and restores spatial learning and coordination in rats (R).

«The pattern of activity in a brain region involved in spatial learning in the virtual world is completely different than when it processes activity in the real world,» said Mayank Mehta, a UCLA professor of physics, neurology and neurobiology in the UCLA College and the study's senior author.

Unlike peers with less sensitive parents, these kids developed normal - sized hippocampi and amygdale — brain structures that play a key role in spatial learning, memory consolidation, stress reactivity, and the processing of emotion (Luby et al 2013).

For example, EEGs indicate that sleeping rats replay the running of a maze in a brain region devoted to spatial learning.

A protein called BAI1, involved in limiting the growth of brain tumors, is also critical for spatial learning and memory, researchers have discovered.

«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.»

Witten's team determined that only the pathway between the prefrontal cortex and the nucleus accumbens is linked to the social - spatial learning they observed.

«They drive all sorts of different forms of learning, the simplest being what we found here: spatial learning, contextual learning.»

Witten and her research team performed optogenetic experiments with the mice to isolate precisely which circuits of the brain are involved in social - spatial learning.

Testing mice in a water maze, researchers found XN and its derivatives ameliorated impairments in spatial learning and memory induced by the high - fat diet the mice had been fed.

First, the Morris maze can detect similar deficits in spatial learning and memory across species.

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.