Tonimarie Catalan’s Reviews > Dark and Magical Places: The Neuroscience of Navigation > Status Update

“…women are somehow more resilient to isolation…” doesn’t surprise me!

Spoiler for myself! 84% of variance in spatial ability is genetic!

Formed over decades in the rainforest? But what about the kids whose navigation ability resembles those of adults? Is it something that you have to learn as a child—maybe people can acquire this skill? Idk and I think ydk either

I can’t help but also wonder if the tracts are connecting incorrect structures? Idk

Amazing analogy for grey and white matter that I wish I knew earlier! I’m trying to develop learning tools for anatomy students so that just sticks out to me 🤣

No. Freaking. Way. In 2018, I downloaded this game they said was being used for research understanding navigation in the brain. I didn’t think anything of it…but that app was used to write the information from this book!

But what are the participants’ spatial skills rated from 1 to 10?

…some people are better at projecting themselves into their future spatial possibilities…better at weighing the possible routes through an environment and predicting the best one to take.

Things to look up—
-some ppl have more place cells than others?
-in order to create more memory, are you overwriting previous ones?