Tuesday, July 26, 2005
Bad at Directions? Get Out More, Study Suggests
Ever enter a strange hallway or an unfamiliar street after being inside and have trouble getting your bearings?
The finding suggests that if you experience orientation problems, then perhaps you've been cooped up too long.
"This discovery points to the fact that our early experiences influence how we solve such problems and could mean that by varying the environments that we encounter early in life, we could broaden and hone our spatial navigation abilities," Sturdy's team writes.
The finding suggests that if you experience orientation problems, then perhaps you've been cooped up too long.
"This discovery points to the fact that our early experiences influence how we solve such problems and could mean that by varying the environments that we encounter early in life, we could broaden and hone our spatial navigation abilities," Sturdy's team writes.
