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Sleepwalker Brain, Games & Navigation, Endurance Hunting
Published 1 year, 8 months ago
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Today, you’ll learn about what goes on in our brains when we sleepwalk, how playing video games might actually help us navigate the world IRL, and the endurance hunting of traditional societies.
Sleepwalker Brain
- “Scientists Discover What’s Happening Inside a Sleepwalker’s Brain.” by Rhianna-lily Smith. 2024.
- “Shared EEG correlates between non-REM parasomnia experiences and dreams.” by Jacinthe Cataldi, et al. 2024.
- “Consciousness and cortical responsiveness: a within-state study during non-rapid eye movement.” by Jaakko O. Nieminen, et al. 2016.
- “Parasomnia: what happens inside a sleepwalker’s brain?” Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience. 2024.
Games & Navigation
- “Playing video games linked to enhanced wayfinding abilities.” by Eric W. Dolan. 2024.
- “Sea Hero Quest.” Spiers Lab. n.d.
- “5 facts about Americans and video games.” by Andrew Perrin. 2018.
- “Video gaming, but not reliance on GPS, is associated with spatial navigation performance.” by Emre Yavuz, et al. 2024
Endurance Hunting
- “Born to run? Endurance running may have evolved to help humans chase down prey.” by Kermit Pattison. 2024.
- “Ethnography and ethnohistory support the efficiency of hunting through endurance running in humans.” by Eugene Morin & Bruce Winterhalder. 2024.
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