How the brain remembers and forgets where things are: The neurocognition of object–location memory

Postma, Albert; Kessels, Roy P. C.; Asselen, Marieke van

doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2008.05.001

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“…Another frequently suggested division of labor across species is the lateralization of hippocampal involvement, with navigation dominating in the right and memory in the left hemisphere. 8,26,27 Similar patterns of rightward lateralization in navigation have also been reported in rodents 28 and avians. 29 In a recent coordinate-based meta-analysis, we have illustrated this distinction between the involvement of subregions of the HC in episodic memory and spatial navigation.…”

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Playing Super Mario induces structural brain plasticity: gray matter changes resulting from training with a commercial video game

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Video gaming is a highly pervasive activity, providing a multitude of complex cognitive and motor demands. Gaming can be seen as an intense training of several skills. Associated cerebral structural plasticity induced has not been investigated so far. Comparing a control with a video gaming training group that was trained for 2 months for at least 30 min per day with a platformer game, we found significant gray matter (GM) increase in right hippocampal formation (HC), right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) and bilateral cerebellum in the training group. The HC increase correlated with changes from egocentric to allocentric navigation strategy. GM increases in HC and DLPFC correlated with participants' desire for video gaming, evidence suggesting a predictive role of desire in volume change. Video game training augments GM in brain areas crucial for spatial navigation, strategic planning, working memory and motor performance going along with evidence for behavioral changes of navigation strategy. The presented video game training could therefore be used to counteract known risk factors for mental disease such as smaller hippocampus and prefrontal cortex volume in, for example, post-traumatic stress disorder, schizophrenia and neurodegenerative disease.

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Playing Super Mario induces structural brain plasticity: gray matter changes resulting from training with a commercial video game

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“…A visuospatial task was selected for three reasons. First, this task, like other declarative learning tasks, has been shown to engage the hippocampus (25). Hippocampal-dependent tasks are subject to neural replay during sleep, a possible mechanism underlying sleep-dependent consolidation (26).…”

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Sleep spindles in midday naps enhance learning in preschool children

Kurdziel¹,

Duclos

Spencer³

2013

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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“…However, like CANTAB's Spatial Working Memory subtest and the Executive Golf task, it only uses a single item (a ball), while the Box Task enables the inclusion of different objects. The inclusion of identity in the Box task has a special interest, since in the neuropsychological literature various studies have found impairments specific to binding items to locations (see, e.g., Postma, Kessels, & Van Asselen, 2008, for a review). Note that the Box Task is not a neuropsychological test that can be used to assess patients' performance clinically for diagnostic purposes, as it is not standardized, but offers users the possibility of designing their own experiments.…”

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The Box Task: A tool to design experiments for assessing visuospatial working memory

Kessels

Postma

2017

Behav Res

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The present paper describes the Box Task, a paradigm for the computerized assessment of visuospatial working memory. In this task, hidden objects have to be searched by opening closed boxes that are shown at different locations on the computer screen. The set size (i.e., number of boxes that must be searched) can be varied and different error scores can be computed that measure specific working memory processes (i.e., the number of within-search and between-search errors). The Box Task also has a developer's mode in which new stimulus displays can be designed for use in tailored experiments. The Box Task comes with a standard set of stimulus displays (including practice trials, as well as stimulus displays with 4, 6, and 8 boxes). The raw data can be analyzed easily and the results of individual participants can be aggregated into one spreadsheet for further statistical analyses.

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How the brain remembers and forgets where things are: The neurocognition of object–location memory

Cited by 143 publications

References 88 publications

Playing Super Mario induces structural brain plasticity: gray matter changes resulting from training with a commercial video game

Playing Super Mario induces structural brain plasticity: gray matter changes resulting from training with a commercial video game

Sleep spindles in midday naps enhance learning in preschool children

The Box Task: A tool to design experiments for assessing visuospatial working memory

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