%% parent:: [[Memory]] %% # Spatial Memory One of the functions of the brain is spatial memory, which allows for the storage and retrieval of information that allows us to locate and orient ourselves within our environment.[^1] It is one component of [[Spatial cognition]]. --- # ## Research jumping points - [2014 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine](https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2014/press-release/): John O’Keefe, May-Britt Moser, and Edvard I. Moser for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain [^1]: [[bisbySpatialMemory|Britannica Online Encyclopedia: Spatial memory]]