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Pierre Huyghebaert"We now leave <a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/navigation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#navigation</a> to our <a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/phones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#phones</a>. The result: more of us are getting hopelessly lost." <a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/JohnHarris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JohnHarris</a> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/27/smartphone-apps-gps-mountain-rescues-rise" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/27/smartphone-apps-gps-mountain-rescues-rise</a> "<a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/GPS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GPS</a> has cut us off from a basic human skill. It’s no wonder <a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/mountain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mountain</a> <a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/rescuers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rescuers</a> are being called out so often. [...] Between 2019 and 2024, the total number of <a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/rescues" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rescues</a> had increased by 24%, and there was a marked jump among the 18 to 24 age group, among whom callouts almost doubled. [...] across <a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/Britain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Britain</a>, there is evidently a mounting problem about the gap between people’s urge to experience wild and open spaces, and their ability to cope when they actually get there. [...] research suggesting that “people with greater lifetime GPS experience have worse <a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/spatialmemory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spatialmemory</a> during self-guided navigation”. [...] retested 3 years after the initial research, when they found that “greater GPS use since initial testing was associated with a steeper decline in hippocampal-dependent spatial memory”. The <a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/hippocampus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hippocampus</a> is the part of the brain that deals with navigation: among London taxi drivers, the need to memorise so many geographical details was found to cause it to increase in size. But here were findings that suggested the opposite: reliance on automated <a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/directions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#directions</a> reducing people’s capacity to navigate for themselves." <a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/cartography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cartography</a> Thx <a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/SophieBerrebi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SophieBerrebi</a>

Hussaini LabInterested in how spatial coding is impaired in the medial entorhinal cortex? Join Gustavo Rodriguez on Thursday, 27th June at <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/fens2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fens2024</a> to hear about it. Poster nr: PS04-27PM-531 <a href="https://bird.makeup/users/fensorg" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@fensorg</a> <a href="https://bird.makeup/users/_brightfocus" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@_brightfocus</a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/spatialmemory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spatialmemory</a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/dementia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dementia</a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/alzheimers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#alzheimers</a>

StephA great story on orienteering and spatial memory and its connection to success in STEM disciplines: <a href="https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240215-do-some-people-have-a-better-sense-of-direction" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240215-do-some-people-have-a-better-sense-of-direction</a><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/orienteering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#orienteering</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/spatialMemory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spatialMemory</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/STEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#STEM</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/math" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#math</a>

Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Butterflies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Butterflies</a> can remember where things are over sizeable spaces <a href="https://phys.org/news/2023-08-butterflies-sizeable-spaces.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://phys.org/news/2023-08-butterflies-sizeable-spaces.html</a>Long-term <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/SpatialMemory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SpatialMemory</a> across large spatial scales in <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Heliconius" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Heliconius</a> butterflies: Priscila Moura et al. <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982223007595" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982223007595</a>"Spatial learning is known in <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/insects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#insects</a>, but much of the research has focused on <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/ants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ants</a>, <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/bees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bees</a> which live socially. This study provides the first direct evidence of spatial learning in butterflies or <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/moths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#moths</a>, and suggests that complex learning skills may be more common in insects"

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