Your Brain on Foot — and on a Map

Finding our way without GPS is food for the hippocampus

Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash

I have an attachment to paper maps, having used them to get lost — and found — in many a forest and many a foreign city long before the advent of smartphone apps. I like the way maps give a feel for the surrounding landscape or streetscape, how they orient me beyond the edges of my immediate presence, particularly…