Memories ‘Geotagged’ With Spatial Information

Using a video game in which people navigate through a virtual town delivering objects to specific locations, a team of neuroscientists from the University of Pennsylvania and Freiburg University has discovered how brain cells that encode spatial information form “geotags” for specific memories and are activated immediately before those memories are recalled.

this might help explain why long driving trips seem shorter with successive trips

I wonder if that’s related to the memory tool where you can remember a whole deck of cards by linking them with rooms in your house?

Divine Angel said:

I wonder if that’s related to the memory tool where you can remember a whole deck of cards by linking them with rooms in your house?

Is that what’s known as a house of cards?

> this might help explain why long driving trips seem shorter with successive trips

Or simply that seeing an image once forms a memory that is not changed when the same image is seen a second time.