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Why Childhood Navigation Feels Automatic But Adult Routes Don't Stick

I can navigate to my childhood home from muscle memory but I get lost driving to places I've been dozens of times as an adult.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Early spatial learning creates neural maps with different durability than those formed by an adult mind managing competing demands.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Memory — how it works and fails?”

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