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Cognitive spatial mapping
Also searched as Cognitive spatial mapping.
In depth
An emerging construct: building and using a mental map of space. Often the earliest cognitive function to decline in aging and Alzheimer's disease.
What drives it
Cellular aging reduces it.
within a virtual environment that provided only optic flow information, older participants exhibited deficits in path integration in terms of distance reproduction, rotation reproduction, and triangle completion. Verbatim from the source for this edge — PMID 22431367, doi 10.1038/s41467-020-15805-9. doi 10.1038/s41467-020-15805-9 · PMID 22431367 · PMC9727394
What it drives
It increases Learning & memory.
Each cognitive domain consists of more granular cognitive types. Front Psychiatry 2018;9:461.
It increases Hand-eye coordination.
Each cognitive domain consists of more granular cognitive types. Front Psychiatry 2018;9:461.
Blends that modulate it
Each blend page names this pathway and carries the study behind its claim.
See it on the map
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