Cracking the spatial memory code
Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 08:35
in Psychology & Sociology
Researchers have shown that they can tell where a person is 'standing' within a virtual reality room on the basis of the pattern of activity in the brain alone. The findings, published online on 12th March in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, offer compelling evidence that the hippocampus, a region of the brain critical to navigation, memory, and imagining future experiences, works in a structured and predictable way. That discovery is contrary to what many experts had previously suspected, according to the researchers...