This might be a cause of why many senior people tend to have troubles
with spatial navigation.»
Not exact matches
That's why the MRIs of the memory contestants showed activation in the brain areas associated
with visual imagery and
spatial navigation.
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 hippocampus — a region crucially involved in forming «episodic» memories (event recall) and
spatial memory (for physical
navigation)-- is especially affected by aging,
with accompanying declines in the ability to learn and remember; it also deteriorates early on when afflicted by Alzheimer's.
Other research has shown that problems
with spatial memory and
navigation do manifest as individuals progress toward Alzheimer's disease.
«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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
Sea Hero Quest VR was developed in partnership
with a number of world - leading dementia scientists,
spatial navigation consultants and data security specialists.
The main concept and functionality are however clear, as the «Lightwear» glasses are backed by a «Lightpack» engine that drives the «
spatial computing platform» and a handheld controller equipped
with six degrees of freedom for «effortless
navigation.»