Can You Give Yourself a Better Sense of Direction?

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This video was sponsored by Sun Basket. Use this link to support us and get 60% off your first delivery anywhere in the US: https://getsunbasket.com/psych Some of us can’t navigate anywhere without a GPS - but are we doomed to a life of directional bewilderment? Or is there hope for us yet? Hosted by: Brit Garner ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Bill & Katie Scholl, Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Andrew Finley Brenan, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982212015072 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982212012079 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3543985/ https://www.nature.com/articles/nn.3466 https://www.nature.com/articles/nature01964 https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/97/8/4398.full.pdf https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4466779/ https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1364-6613(10)00002-1 https://www.pnas.org/content/105/49/19096/ https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/dev.420250804 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/09/science/walking-directions-mobile-phone.html http://www.jneurosci.org/content/23/13/5945 https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/eyes-the-brain/201009/can-you-acquire-sense-direction https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0272494407000734 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5166998/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5392707/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3533499/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6232837/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27013151 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0198971509000064 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3583670/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17024677 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18946210 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5504278/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S019745801100042X?via%3Dihub https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3268356/ Image Sources: https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/businessman-smiling-and-doing-thumbs-up-hand-sign-gm637794348-113958431 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/roads-view-from-above-drawing-gm508937601-46318966 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/the-easy-way-or-the-hard-way-businessman-want-to-choose-the-right-path-gm943567154-257798121 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/top-view-of-highway-road-junctions-at-night-the-intersecting-freeway-road-overpass-gm965962418-263586530 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/banner-with-top-view-of-road-gm962493016-262873002 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/businessman-with-blindfold-trying-to-throw-a-dart-arrow-gm928197080-254595209 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/businessman-feeling-stressed-working-behind-laptop-gm638233842-114316143 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/two-traveling-friends-check-the-right-way-on-the-map-gm818977102-132377207 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/person-with-a-map-gm112301284-29663874 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/limbic-system-gm1075061016-287798159 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/brain-hippocampus-anatomy-of-female-gm461850387-32159354 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/taxi-gm519870714-90753883 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/landscape-1980s-style-gm910352702-250709992 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/woman-preparing-food-in-the-kitchen-gm843300458-144189959 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/mobile-users-gm534031654-94674959 https://www.videoblocks.com/video/a-simulated-driver-arriving-ride-sharing-app-direction-route-map-screen-for-a-cellular-phone-orientation-is-created-vertical-for-placement-on-a-typical-1080x1920-smartphone-screen-in-portrait-mode-slrtcbnl7jky1aaaw https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/empty-battery-life-of-smartphone-red-accumulator-hand-hold-phone-gm807085470-130869401 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/animal-set-portrait-in-flat-graphics-mouse-gm464437654-58700662 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/brain-icon-flat-gm961260950-262489687 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/solo-traveler-in-tower-bridge-area-reading-a-map-gm600990082-103311173


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