Word: spatiality
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...development proceeds in stages, generally from back to front. Some of the brain regions that reach maturity earliest - through proliferation and pruning - are those in the back of the brain that mediate direct contact with the environment by controlling such sensory functions as vision, hearing, touch and spatial processing. Next are areas that coordinate those functions: the part of the brain that helps you know where the light switch is in your bathroom even if you can't see it in the middle of the night. The very last part of the brain to be pruned and shaped...
...student at the Graduate School of Education, Diana Gagnon, took advantage of the available computing power for a study on the relationship between spatial perception and video game playing, having her subjects play games like Battlezone and Targ for hours in Currier House and then take questionnaires...
...memory problems combined with problems in some other cognitive domain, like verbal fluency or spatial reasoning," De Santi says. "Seventy-one percent of those who had memory problems plus some other problem ended up getting sick with Alzheimer's, but only 8% of people who had only memory problems got sick...
...currently in a medically induced coma. There have been reports that, despite her youth, many of her teeth are missing. Stefan has fared somewhat better, although his skin, like that of his siblings, is ghostly pale. Life in a warren of narrow corridors and low ceilings has damaged the spatial orientation of Stefan and Felix, and there may be more serious consequences for all three: health experts say a chronic lack of sunlight and exercise can leave children's bones pliable, their muscles weak and their eyes overly sensitive to strong light...
...having their own space. Dr. Berthold Kepplinger, who is leading the specialist team of doctors and therapists looking after Elizabeth Fritzl and her family, said they have all been given separate rooms and have their personal belongings and toys with them. "It is a question of restoring their spatial orientation step by step. We are convinced this will succeed in the next few weeks," he said...