Sentences with phrase «spatial navigation task»

Professor O'Keefe describes the novel spatial navigation task:

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.

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The subjects completed a spatial learning task that consisted of navigation through a virtual environment to deliver passengers to stores (Fig. 1 in the Supplementary Appendix).

The bottom sets of scans obtained from the patient (Panel C) and the control subject (Panel D) show activation (blue) resulting from the spatial imagery task (cued with the word «navigation») as compared with rest periods, as well as the time course of the peak voxel in the parahippocampal gyrus.

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.

Studies have shown that both women and gays score poorly on tasks that require navigation or spatial awareness.