Spatial Memory

Question 1

Cognitive Map

Answer 1

Hippocampus esp active in rat learning a maze, developing a Cognitive Map of its environment

Question 2

Place Cells

Answer 2

in Hippocampus are differentially active when rat is in different, familiar locations

enable you to form a cognitive map

Question 3

Birds

Answer 3

that cache thousands of seeds & must remember locations during winter (e.g. Clark’s Nutcracker,
Pinyon Jay) have much larger Hippocampus than non-caching relatives (e.g. Scrub Jay)

Question 4

Larger in Humans who..

Answer 4

…have extensive spatial experience (e.g. taxi drivers, bushmen)

Question 5

Humans show more activity

Answer 5

(e.g. via PET scans) in Hippocampus while answering questions that depend
on spatial information (e.g. re: locations in or routes through city) than non-spatial (e.g. Who’s Who)

Question 6

damage to Hippocampus impairs

Answer 6

formation/use of spatial memory (e.g. ability to navigate, to map)