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In neuroscience, spatial memory is the part of memory responsible for recording information about one's environment and its spatial orientation. For example, a person's spatial memory is required in order to navigate around a familiar city, just as a rat's spatial memory is needed to learn the location of food at the end of a maze.

Spatial memories are formed after an organism gathers and processes sensory information about its surroundings (especially vision and proprioception). In general, mammals require a functioning hippocampus (particularly area CA1) in order to form and process memories about space. There is some evidence that human spatial memory is strongly tied to the right hemisphere of the brain [1] [2] [3].

Spatial learning requires both NMDA and AMPA receptors, consolidation requires NMDA receptors, and the retrieval of spatial memories requires AMPA receptors [4].

Contents 1 Important Cortical Regions 2 See also 3 See also 4 References & Bibliography 5 Key texts 5.1 Books 5.2 Papers 6 Additional material 6.1 Books 6.2 Papers 7 External links

[edit] Important Cortical Regions

• Prefrontal cortex
• Retrosplenial cortex
• Posterior parietal cortex
• Perirhinal cortex
• Entorhinal cortex
• Hippocampus

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• Maze
• Morris water maze
• Radial arm maze
• Learning
• Memory
• LTP
• Attention versus memory in prefrontal cortex

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• Navigation

[edit] References & Bibliography

[edit] Key texts

[edit] Books

[edit] Papers

• Olson, D.S. (1979) Mazes, maps and memory, American Psychologist 34: 583-96.

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• Google Scholar

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