Everything about Spatial memory
Memory about one's environment and spatial orientation
In cognitive psychology and neuroscience, spatial memory is a form of memory responsible for the recording and recovery of information needed to plan a course to a location and to recall the location of an object or the occurrence of an event. Spatial memory is necessary for orientation in space. Spatial memory can also be divided into egocentric and allocentric spatial memory. A person's spatial memory is required to navigate in a familiar city. A rat's spatial memory is needed to learn the location of food at the end of a maze. In humans and animals, spatial memories are summarized as a cognitive map. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Spatial memoryA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Multiple spatial frames for immersive working memoryInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Project Hail MaryThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Morris water maze: procedures for assessing spatial and related forms of learning and memoryCited 4,219 times
- Go sideways: Explicit memoryA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Theta waveA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
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🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Morris water maze: procedures for assessing spatial and related forms of learning and memory
Spatial memory, recognition memory, and the hippocampus
Spatial memory and hippocampal function
Spatial memory and animal movement
Chimpanzee Spatial Memory Organization
Spatial Memory in Insect Navigation
Rehearsal in spatial working memory.
Neuroanatomical bases of spatial memory
🆕 Influential since 2022
📚 Books worth reading
Project Hail MaryAndy Weir · 2021
Time, space, and phantasyRosine Jozef Perelberg · 2008
Space,Time and Memory in the Hippocampal FormationDori Derdikman, James J. Knierim · 2014
Beyond the cognitive mapA. David Redish · 1999- 📕Neuropsychology of SpaceAlbert Postma, Ineke J. M. van der Ham · 2016
- 📕The role of visual-spatial ability and working memory in image guided simulator performancePehr Andersson · 2007
Animal Spatial CognitionCatherine Thinus-Blanc · 1996- 📕Mental maps - Raum - Erinnerung: kulturwissenschaftliche Zug ange zum Verh altnis von Raum und ErinnerungSabine Damir-Geilsdorf, Angelika Hartmann · 2005
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