Spatial navigation can be understood as the ability to understand and find one's way around in physical space or an environment. It involves determining and remembering the location of objects or landmarks and navigating from one place to another.
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However, studies have shown that exercise can
improve spatial navigation, contextual memory and the ability to distinguish between highly similar objects or stimuli (pattern separation) in rodents and humans.
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.
This suggests that grid cells may contribute to more than
just spatial navigation and are involved more broadly in planning and imagining the future.
The Honeycomb Maze was intentionally designed to overcome the drawbacks of other tests
for spatial navigation and memory such as the T - or Y - maze, Olton radial arm maze, Barnes maze and Morris Water Maze.
People with dyslexia frequently prefer thinking in narrative form, a proclivity that makes them natural storytellers, and they tend to have exceptional
spatial navigation skills, visualizing 3 - D structures with ease.
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.
«Honeycomb maze offers significant improvement over current
spatial navigation tests: Powerful new tool for the study of spatial memory.»
The former showed increased gray matter density in their posterior hippocampi — a region linked to
maplike spatial navigation and memory.
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.
«Having these patients play our games allows us to record every action they take in the game and to measure the responses of neurons both
during spatial navigation and then later during verbal recall.»
Specifically, we hypothesized that older adults who trained on the 3D - platform game Super Mario 64 for 6 months would benefit from its
prominent spatial navigation components [15, 17].
We worked closely with leading neuroscientists and dementia experts, Dr Hugo Spiers and Professor Michael Horenberger, to
adapt spatial navigation and memory tests into engaging gameplay that would output valid scientific data.
Sea Hero Quest VR was developed in partnership with a number of world - leading dementia scientists,
spatial navigation consultants and data security specialists.
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.
The discovery of these so - called grid cells, and their role as a neuronal GPS
for spatial navigation, won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for Norwegian scientists Edvard Moser and May - Britt Moser.
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.
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.
Spatial navigation tasks are used to study the way animals identify their location and navigate towards favourable, and away from unfavourable, locations in response to changes in the environment.
In this study, Jankowsky and colleagues determined for the first time the benefits of dual amyloid - beta treatment on brain functions, such
as spatial navigation and memory, in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease.
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.
Despite their bad rap, and please don't tell my tweens and teen this, gaming for 30 minutes a day has been shown to enrich your brain's strategic planning,
spatial navigation, motor skills and more.
Some former alcohol abusers show permanent damage to the hippocampus, a brain region that regulates long - term memory and
spatial navigation, and only partial resolution of lesions on the white matter.
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.
These regions, which included the right posterior hippocampus, are known to be involved in visual memory and
spatial navigation.
That's why the MRIs of the memory contestants showed activation in the brain areas associated with visual imagery and
spatial navigation.
It might seem odd that the memory contestants would use visual imagery and
spatial navigation to remember numbers, but the activity makes sense when their techniques are revealed.
Scientists have long speculated that schizophrenia, which affects about 1 in every 100 adults worldwide, originates in part in the hippocampus — the brain's headquarters for memory and
spatial navigation.
It has an integral role in memory and
spatial navigation.
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.
This is particularly applicable for
spatial navigation.
«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.
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.
In the brains of older adults, they detected an unstable activity in an area that is central for
spatial navigation.
In healthy volunteers given these instructions, regions of the brain involved in motor planning,
spatial navigation and imagery light up.
The hippocampus is responsible for both our short - term and long - term memory, and also for
spatial navigation.
Houston, TX (Scicasts)-- 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...
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).
The hippocampal formation is a brain structure integrally involved in episodic memory,
spatial navigation, cognition and stress responsiveness.
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.