Read or Die a Slave

Are Our Brains Built On Maps? (w/ Lam Nguyen)


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Howard Eichenbaum believed that our abilities for auto-biographical memory and imagination may be built upon the hippocampus' spacial structures—that what we refer to as "mental maps" may literally be mental maps. This is likely why memory palaces work so well.

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    Read or Die a SlaveBy Chad Hall