Got lost doing the shopping? Why it happens and how your brain tries to avoid it
How we learn the differences between two similar locations and why it sometimes goes wrong has been explained in a recent study on holistic retrieval.
Researchers have been interested in how the brain typically establishes differences between two otherwise similar spatial environments. A team of researchers, led by Li Zheng (University of Arizona, AZ, USA), recently set out to answer this question using complex memory tests. Their findings could have implications for the study of Alzheimer’s and our fundamental understanding of spatial memory.