Pondering Cognitive Maps with Jim Knierim
Brain Ponderings podcast with Mark Mattson
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Keeping Track of Your Movement Through Space
The hippocampus and regions like it have a very strong ability to create sequences of events or sequences of movements. You don't- all the time the example I like to give is like you get up in the middle of the night and go to the bathroom and it's dark out. Like you don't want to turn your light on to the stereo spouse. So you can still find your way into the bathroom without pumping into the furniture. All because you have ensured ahead this mental map of your environment and the objects that are in it. That's so mental imagery and mental navigation.
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