On Fri, 2013-08-30 at 10:09 +0530, Biju Chacko wrote: > On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 9:14 PM, Udhay Shankar N <ud...@pobox.com> wrote: > > supposed to do well. When we use GPS, the research indicates, we > > remember less about the places we go, and put less work into generating > > our own internal picture of the world.
I have a serious issue with this "research" What happens when you are inside a large building like an office complex? A mega mall? In a hotel? Or an airport? What happens when you enter a new and unfamiliar bath/toilet area with separate sections for different activities? What your brain does then is exactly the same as it does when you are driving/walking without GPS. Finding its way from visual and other clues. So I find it difficult to believe that this research finding can be taken as significant. It is a data point that needs to be supported or torn down by dozens of other studies. To me this article seems to fall in the category of medical news that appears in the paper every on the lines of "One coffee a day is good but four are bad" etc There is a combination of reporter who is trained to write (by adding fluff) writing about some obscure research and filing up space in a medium that competes with others for eyeballs. This is not science, strictly speaking. It is science gossip being bandied about as the latest in neuroscience. shiv
