> participants who use hippocampus-dependent spatial strategies My first questions were: "How was this measured/detected? How might I know whether I used thes

> participants who use hippocampus-dependent spatial strategies My first questions were: "How was this measured/detected? How might I know whether I used these strategies when I play games?" The answer from your Nature link is very detailed, too detailed to reproduce here. See the section titled, "4 on 8 virtual maze". IIUC they partitioned the groups into "spatial" vs "response" learners by determining whether they navigated a maze while using a memorized sequence of landmarks or without.