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🧠 Some People Can Get Lost Even in Their Own Homes. Scientists Are Unraveling Why
｢ The condition is known as developmental topographical disorientation, or DTD. Unlike navigation problems that can emerge after brain injury or neurological disease, DTD is lifelong and occurs without an acquired brain injury that would explain the difficulty ｣
Interesting. Also CF: _Moonwalking with Einstein_ ( Joshua Foer, Penguin Books, 2012 ). Spatial memory is an excellent way to link arbitrary facts together. I'm pretty sure that most peoples' brains have lots of optimized structure for remembering routes. For nomadic hunter-gatherers -- and even primitive primates -- it's a necessary survival skill.
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