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The Shoemaker’s Children – How Travel, Training and Social Learning Expand Your Mind

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But creating these mental maps isn’t just about being able to memorize long lists of seemingly unrelated words or develop an internal GPS system; the hippocampus communicates with regions in the prefrontal cortex to perform tasks such as route planning, recognition of unexpected blockages and course adjustment based on new data. clomedia.com.

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