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Reichelt, Amy C.; Morris, Margaret J.; Westbrook, Reginald Frederick – Learning & Memory, 2016
High sugar diets reduce hippocampal neurogenesis, which is required for minimizing interference between memories, a process that involves "pattern separation." We provided rats with 2 h daily access to a sucrose solution for 28 d and assessed their performance on a spatial memory task. Sucrose consuming rats discriminated between objects…
Descriptors: Animals, Spatial Ability, Control Groups, Memory
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Gagnon, Lea; Schneider, Fabien C.; Siebner, Hartwig R.; Paulson, Olaf B.; Kupers, Ron; Ptito, Maurice – Neuropsychologia, 2012
Despite their lack of vision, congenitally blind subjects are able to build and manipulate cognitive maps for spatial navigation. It is assumed that they thereby rely more heavily on echolocation, proprioceptive signals and environmental cues such as ambient temperature and audition to compensate for their lack of vision. Little is known, however,…
Descriptors: Cues, Blindness, Vision, Cognitive Mapping