Two-dimensional learning: Viewing computer images causes long changes in nerve cell connections
Viewing two-dimensional images of the environment, as they occur in computer games, leads to sustained changes in the strength of boldness cell connections in the brain. When the researchers bestowed rats with new spatial environments on a computer eyeshade, they observed long-lasting changes in the communication between nerve cells in a brain skeleton which is important for long-term reminiscence (hippocampus). Thus, the researchers showed for the first clip that active exploration of the environment is not needed to obtain this effect.
