Using Virtual Reality to Identify Brain Areas Involved in Memory (2 of 2) (IMAGE)

University of California - Davis

Using Virtual Reality to Identify Brain Areas Involved in Memory (2 of 2)

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UC Davis neuroscientists are using virtual reality to investigate how memories are organized. Graduate student Halle Dimsdale-Zucker showed subjects movies created with virtual sketching software and asked them questions about objects inside the houses. She was able to show that different regions of a brain structure called the hippocampus play different roles in remembering items in context.

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Halle Dimsdale-Zucker, UC Davis

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