Process unlike 2d games, VR provides a first-person 3d immersive experience that is critical to spatial memory training.

与2D游戏不同的是，虚拟现实提供了第一人称的3D沉浸式体验，这对空间记忆培训至关重要。

The hippocampus is involved in spatial memory.

海马体参与空间记忆。

And the spatial memory is unusually good.

而且空间记忆力异常的好。

Since they cannot smell the seeds buried in the soil very well, they must use their remarkable spatial memory to find them.

因为不能通过气味辨别埋在土里种子的位置，它们就必须依靠惊人的空间记忆力来找到这些种子。

We know the hippocampus is important for spatial memory, but we haven’t been so sure how it’s involved in navigation.

我们知道海马体对空间记忆很重要，但我们还不太确定它是如何参与导航的。

And you think, " Well, that's stupid, " but you'll never forget now that the hippocampus is in charge of spatial memory.

你会想，“好吧，这很愚蠢” ，但你永远不会忘记海马体负责空间记忆。

And the reasons for this is that our visual and spatial memory is quite strong and connecting information to those already existing memories proves extremely effective.

因为我们的视觉和空间记忆相当强大，把信息与既存的这些记忆联结起来十分有效。

Now, this sounds like common sense, and it is, but there's a lot of science to back this up, based on the way our spatial memory works.

这听起来就像是常识，也的确是，但这符合我们空间记忆的工作原理，有很多科学依据支持这一点。

A small 2020 study suggested that people who used GPS more frequently over time showed a steeper cognitive decline in spatial memory three years later.

2020 年的一项小型研究表明，随着时间的推移，更频繁地使用 GPS 的人三年后的空间记忆认知能力下降幅度更大。

The idea, then, is to try to come up with very sensitive spatial navigation and spatial memory tests, which will actually enable us to test large numbers of people very early on.

因此，我们的想法是设计出非常敏感的空间导航和空间记忆测试，而这将使我们能够在早期对大量患者进行测试。

O'Keefe: The idea, then, is to try to come up with very sensitive spatial navigation and spatial memory tests, which will actually enable us to test large numbers of people very early on.

O'Keefe：我们的想法是尝试提出非常敏感的空间导航和空间记忆测试，这实际上使我们能够在很早的时候测试大量的人。