Sentences with phrase «study of spatial memory»

A powerful new tool for the study of spatial memory was today described in Nature as a significant improvement over the current gold standard, the Morris Water Maze.

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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.

A study of older adults at increased risk for Alzheimer's disease shows that moderate physical activity may protect brain health and stave off shrinkage of the hippocampus - the brain region responsible for memory and spatial orientation that is attacked first in Alzheimer's disease.

«The comparison of the MRI images from the two mazes reveals which brain regions were specifically contributing to the formation of spatial memories,» says Svenja Brodt, a doctoral candidate at the Graduate Training Center of Neuroscience and lead author of the study.

To determine whether infection with Candida affected any neurological responses, all participants in the new study took a 30 - minute assessment of cognitive tasks to measure immediate memory, delayed memory, attention skills, use of language and visual - spatial skills.

Dr. Michael M. Yartsev, Research Associate and C.V. Starr Fellow at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute at Princeton University receives the US$ 25,000 research prize for his work using the bat as an unusual animal model to study the underlying neural mechanisms of spatial memory and navigation in the mammalian brain.

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.

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.

As in the first study, a group of young mice carrying the human gene APOE4 showed cognitive impairment on the behavioral level — in other words, they showed signs of damage on the level of spatial memory.

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.

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.

Studies in my lab combine behavior, neurophysiology and acoustics to investigate the mechanisms of auditory, visual and somatosensory information processing, natural scene perception, spatial memory and navigation, acoustic communication, sensorimotor integration and flight control.

[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.

In the longitudinal prospective Three City cohort study of 4,197 healthy women and 2,820 healthy men over 65 years, women consuming more than 3 cups of caffeinated coffee per day for four years showed a smaller decline in verbal retrieval and visuo - spatial memory than women consuming one cup of coffee or less per day.

The results of the study showed that old rats saw a 100 % improvement in spatial long - term memory and even out performed younger rats who had not used MgT (5).

Some studies show that such benefits can come from video games, as these can strengthen a range of cognitive abilities, including visual and spatial discrimination, memory, reasoning, logic, and problem solving.

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.