They then conducted
spatial memory tests in which the mice needed to navigate a series of mazes.
Her own, 3 - year study of 38 female chimps found that the oldest four individuals — all older than 50 — got progressively worse at
a spatial memory test as they aged.
[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.
Not exact matches
The participants in the study took a variety of
tests, which measured different aspects of their thinking abilities including
memory span and verbal and
spatial abilities.
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.
In addition, they scored worse on the
Spatial Recall
Test 10/36, a visual memory t
Test 10/36, a visual
memory testtest.
To
test the birds»
spatial memory, he constructed a wall containing 60 identical rubber pockets the contents of which were concealed with a white craft pom pom.
Within six hours of viewing this film, the period during which
memories are thought to be consolidated for long - term storage,
test subjects were randomly assigned to one of three tasks: answering trivia; playing Tetris, a 1980s video game that involves optimizing visual -
spatial cues; or engaging in nothing in particular.
«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.»
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.
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.
By asking participants to recall the items they delivered instead of the stores they visited, the researchers could
test whether their
spatial memory systems were being activated even when episodic
memories were being accessed.
In a
test of
spatial learning and
memory, the mice with extra klotho performed twice as well.
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.
Cognitive function improved as a result, as assessed with
tests of
spatial memory.
The cognitive abilities that are
tested for this diagnosis are complex attention, language, executive function (which are skills that enable people to plan, organize, remember things, prioritize, or pay attention to tasks, for example), visuospatial function (the visual perception of
spatial relationships among objects),
memory, and social cognition.
The cognitive abilities that are
tested for this diagnosis are complex attention, language, executive function (skills that enable people to plan, organize, remember things, prioritize, or pay attention to tasks, for example), visuospatial function (the visual perception of
spatial relationships among objects),
memory, and social cognition.
In addition, cognitive function was assessed through a variety of
tests that included working
memory, verbal episodic
memory and visual -
spatial memory as well as scanning and tracking.
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.
The 19 dieters completed five
testing sessions that assessed cognitive skills, including attention, long - term and short - term
memory, and visual attention, and
spatial memory.