Spatial memory refers to our ability to remember and recall specific locations and navigate within our environment. It helps us remember where things are located, such as landmarks, objects, or places we have been to before. It is like having an internal map in our brain that allows us to find our way around and remember the layout of a space.
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They demonstrated that this region plays a role
in spatial memory, which was not significantly impaired in the older subjects.
Both forms of the protein seemed to improve performance on a test
of spatial memory in the models.
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 map - like nature of the neurons associated
with spatial memory made this comparison possible.
This brain region plays a critical role in learning new information,
forming spatial memories and storing short - term memories as long - term ones.
Compared with eating white chocolate, eating dark chocolate was found to improve
visual spatial memory, and factors involved in motivation and attention.
These «portraits» of place convey my thoughts and feelings about the places where I have not constructed an identity and, therefore, am unable to
retrieve spatial memories and stories.
She works with various mediums and techniques, but holds a specific interest
in spatial memory.
In order to identify the brain region responsible
for spatial memory, the researchers had a special trick.
Goldstein says that turmeric's benefits include improving the health of brain mitochondria and helping with
spatial memory by decreasing lipid peroxidation in brain tissue.
«Their loss of
spatial memory formation was not a surprise,» said senior co-author Robert Clark, PhD, a professor of psychiatry.
When the hippocampus recalls a past location, it retrieves the
stored spatial memory from a subregion of the hippocampus called CA3.
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.
«This indicated that exercise significantly
improved spatial memory impairments in type 2 diabetic rats,» Shima explains.
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.
For his research, Wegman combined data from several studies done by the Radboud University research group Neural Correlates of
Spatial Memory at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour.
«But what we're seeing in these mice is that the balance between LTP and LTD is upset, and that disturbance may lead to the problems in
spatial memory acquisition.»
His sleek manipulations of baseball diamonds and high - speed trains offer a glimpse into some of his passions, and his Wooster paintings preserve specific
spatial memories from his time in New York.
According to McQuillan, a Ph.D. candidate in evolutionary biology at Lehigh and lead author of the study, the northern Black - capped Chickadee is a model species for
studying spatial memory and learning, traits that are key to scatter - hoarders» survival.
As with earlier
spatial memory experiments conducted by Kahana's group, this study involved playing a simple video game on a bedside computer.
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.
It turns out 3 - and 4 - week - old piglets, whose brain development is roughly equivalent to 3 - to 4 - month - old infants, have a
bad spatial memory: when familiar toys were in a different spot, the piglets played with them as if they were new.
«Our findings are not a reflection of general brain aging but rather of specific neural changes that are linked to specific problems in object but
not spatial memory.»
In fat rats with «grossly dysregulated» gut health, thanks to being fed junk food, probiotics positively changed the bacterial make - up in their digestive tract and benefitted brain function, preventing
spatial memory loss.
The phone uses several technologies, including Motion Tracking (to detect the movement of the user), Depth Sensing (to detect the distance of objects in the physical space) and Area Leaning (the
device spatial memory for drift correction and also support multiplayer games that take place in space physical space).
Effects of sucrose and high fructose corn syrup consumption on
spatial memory function and hippocampal neuroinflammation in adolescent rats
When the hippocampus forms a
new spatial memory, it receives sensory information about your current location from a brain region called the entorhinal cortex.
Because gamma waves are seen in many areas of the brain besides the hippocampus, Colgin's findings may generalize
beyond spatial memory.
That the spines are increasing in the hippocampus, which controls learning and memory, suggests a possible function: enhancing memory,
particularly spatial memory, that may be required of the new mother.
In the Sandia - led study, the volunteers played verbal or
spatial memory training games for 30 minutes while receiving stimulation to the left or right forehead.
The bacteria may speed up learning because the Raphe nuclei stimulate a brain region called the hippocampus, which
handles spatial memory, she says.
We were able to prove for the first time that REM sleep is indeed critical for
normal spatial memory formation in mice,» explains Williams, whose team is also part of the CIUSSS de l'Ouest - de - l'Île - de-Montréal research network.
To do this, they ran different populations of mice through cognitive and memory tests — including a water maze to
examine spatial memory and a fear conditioning paradigm to examine associative memory.
Specifically, previous research has shown that mountain chickadees living at high elevations, that experience harsher winter conditions, have
superior spatial memory and related brain regions associated with more intense food caching compared with low elevation birds (these results found using different birds from the same Mountain 1 populations at exactly the same elevations used here [23 — 25]-RRB-.
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.
Martinez - Trujillo, a member of Western's renowned Brain and Mind Institute, notes that
most spatial memory experiments include animal models being tested in actual, real - world mazes while humans are assessed virtually, using computer screens, more often than not in a two - dimensional setting.
Pathological hallmarks of AD, including plaques and loss of synaptic markers, are readily apparent at nine months of age in huAPP / PS1 mice along with clear deficits in
spatial memory when compared to wild type controls [7, 10, 11, 31].