{"id":6354,"date":"2018-10-16T11:00:31","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T15:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=6354"},"modified":"2018-11-24T17:15:58","modified_gmt":"2018-11-24T22:15:58","slug":"smell-and-spatial-memory-share-brain-hardware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/smell-and-spatial-memory-share-brain-hardware\/","title":{"rendered":"Smell and spatial memory share brain hardware"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nature Communications<\/em><\/a>
\nPublished\u00a0October 16, 2018 \u00a011:00 EDT<\/strong> (News release<\/a> from Nature Research Press)
\nOf 57 volunteers, participants who did well in a test to identify odours performed better when they were asked to navigate between landmarks in a virtual town. Brain imaging revealed that increased thickness of the left medial orbitofrontal cortex (mOFC) and volume of the right hippocampus of the brain predicted better performance on both tasks, suggesting that the same brain regions underlie odour identification and spatial navigation ability.\u00a0Additional tests showed performance on both olfactory identification and spatial memory tasks was impaired in patients with brain lesions affecting the mOFC.<\/p>\n

Corresponding author: <\/strong>V\u00e9ronique Bohbot, McGill University –\u00a0veronique.bohbot@mcgill.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nature Communications Published\u00a0October 16, 2018 \u00a011:00 EDT (News release from Nature Research Press) Of 57 volunteers, participants who did well in a test to identify odours performed better when they were asked to navigate between landmarks in a virtual town. Brain imaging revealed that increased thickness of the left medial orbitofrontal cortex (mOFC) and volume […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1327,3259,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-scientifique","category-heads-up","category-paper-of-interest"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1Eu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6382,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6354\/revisions\/6382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}