Hippocampus And Spatial Memory
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Hippocampus and Spatial memory
The Hippocampus is a small region in the brain, about 3 cm all around. This portion of the brain is essential for adequate development. It controls spatial memory. Spatial memory for example would be the memory of the interior of a building and it’s layout.This type of memory helps a person relate what they're seeing and where they've previously been. Spatial memory is one of the most important parts of the brain’s memory storage; It’s extremely beneficial for humans, given that we often travel to new places. It’s good to have a solid memory of what is familiar to us. It also gives us an advantage in terms of development. Having a keen sense of spatial memory means we can often remember layouts
that are useful to us, and have a dynamic way of thinking about, and storing memories related to navigating our surroundings. The Hippocampus has been found to perform some of the same function in animals as it does in humans. Rodents, and primates, for example, have Hippocampuses. However, their Hippocampus does not perform at the same capacity as a human's. Spatial memory helps animals and humans alike, to memorize relevant navigations; such as a rat searching for cheese, and the rats only way of getting there is through a maze. Likewise humans would be lost without a complex Spatial memory to depend on. The Hippocampus gives humans an incredible ability to travel and recall an amazing amount of detail about certain changes in environment or even in their own houses. This amount of memory has given way to humans discovering, and exploring areas otherwise left alone. Spatial memory and the Hippocampus are incredibly important to basic survival, without it we would literally have no idea where to go.
Hippocampus and Spatial memory
The Hippocampus is a small region in the brain, about 3 cm all around. This portion of the brain is essential for adequate development. It controls spatial memory. Spatial memory for example would be the memory of the interior of a building and it’s layout.This type of memory helps a person relate what they're seeing and where they've previously been. Spatial memory is one of the most important parts of the brain’s memory storage; It’s extremely beneficial for humans, given that we often travel to new places. It’s good to have a solid memory of what is familiar to us. It also gives us an advantage in terms of development. Having a keen sense of spatial memory means we can often remember layouts
that are useful to us, and have a dynamic way of thinking about, and storing memories related to navigating our surroundings. The Hippocampus has been found to perform some of the same function in animals as it does in humans. Rodents, and primates, for example, have Hippocampuses. However, their Hippocampus does not perform at the same capacity as a human's. Spatial memory helps animals and humans alike, to memorize relevant navigations; such as a rat searching for cheese, and the rats only way of getting there is through a maze. Likewise humans would be lost without a complex Spatial memory to depend on. The Hippocampus gives humans an incredible ability to travel and recall an amazing amount of detail about certain changes in environment or even in their own houses. This amount of memory has given way to humans discovering, and exploring areas otherwise left alone. Spatial memory and the Hippocampus are incredibly important to basic survival, without it we would literally have no idea where to go.