Reply #10: Well, actually, I had already tried something like that and it didn't help a lot:

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... The hippocampus is believed to be involved in memory and in navigation processes such as the ability to find new routes and identify short cuts ...
Study suggests reliance on GPS may reduce hippocampus function as we age
November 18, 2010 by Lin Edwards
http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-11-reliance-gps-hippocampus-function-age.html

... There continues to be some interest in hippocampal olfactory responses ... Over the years, three main ideas of hippocampal function have dominated the literature: inhibition, memory, and space ...
Hippocampus Functions
http://www.news-medical.net/health/Hippocampus-Functions.aspx

... the hippocampus is involved in explicit memory about emotional situations ...
Emotional memory
Joseph E. LeDoux (2007), Scholarpedia, 2(7):1806
http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Emotional_memory

So we're wandering off into the woozie land of the hippocampus is the part of the brain that's associated with stuff like smell and finding spatial shortcuts and remembering emotional events and all sorts of other stuff like that

But, thanks for your help, such as it was

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