Working with and living in spatially complex environments may help delay cognitive decline, though more research is needed.
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Habit helps take the mental load off figuring out how to get somewhere. But relying on the familiar can make it harder to adapt to changes to your route and to find better ones.
While people have wondered about déjà vu for a long time, only recently have scientists started experimentally investigating what might trigger it.
Grid-like cities such as Buenos Aries can have a detrimental effect on navigation ability.
The New Zealand robin has learnt to hide left-over food for later consumption, and it turns out that male birds with the best spatial memory have the greatest breeding success.
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