Ditch the GPS. It's ruining your brain. - The Washington Post - 0 views
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they also affect perception and judgment. When people are told which way to turn, it relieves them of the need to create their own routes and remember them. They pay less attention to their surroundings. And neuroscientists can now see that brain behavior changes when people rely on turn-by-turn directions.
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2017, researchers asked subjects to navigate a virtual simulation of London’s Soho neighborhood and monitored their brain activity, specifically the hippocampus, which is integral to spatial navigation
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The hippocampus makes an internal map of the environment and this map becomes active only when you are engaged in navigating and not using GPS,
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