Comments on: Geocaching: The Best Work Out for Your Hippocampus or is it? http://blog.geocaching.com/2010/06/geocaching-the-best-work-out-for-your-hippocampus-or-is-it/ The Official Blog of Geocaching Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:33:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 By: GPS tracker http://blog.geocaching.com/2010/06/geocaching-the-best-work-out-for-your-hippocampus-or-is-it/comment-page-1/#comment-3361 GPS tracker Mon, 25 Oct 2010 06:07:00 +0000 http://blog.geocaching.com/?p=665#comment-3361 Maybe, but I just do not see how it helps our life in any means.

]]> By: Car DVD GPS http://blog.geocaching.com/2010/06/geocaching-the-best-work-out-for-your-hippocampus-or-is-it/comment-page-1/#comment-1480 Car DVD GPS Fri, 13 Aug 2010 08:50:24 +0000 http://blog.geocaching.com/?p=665#comment-1480 It would be interesting to see the taxi driver study repeated in this age of GPS navigation.

]]> By: Triguy http://blog.geocaching.com/2010/06/geocaching-the-best-work-out-for-your-hippocampus-or-is-it/comment-page-1/#comment-898 Triguy Sun, 04 Jul 2010 23:45:47 +0000 http://blog.geocaching.com/?p=665#comment-898 Geocaching to me is an activity that exercises your brain as well as your body. GPS receivers does not have to replace your brain. While out geocaching I look at the scenery, topo of the area, geological formations, plants, trees, and thousands of other visual indicators that I am sure will also enhance my brain's natural GPS. What happens if I am out there and my receiver stops working for whatever reason, eg batteries, equipment breakage, etc? I must revert from tech equipment to my brain to find my way, or make rational decisions on where I am and where I have to go to. By being constantly aware of my surroundings, and memorizing them, and that means taking my eyes off the GPS(r) for just a second or two to look around, I am committing visual images to my brain which will aid me in my tasks should the need arise. It's like we grew up learning manually on how to add, subtract etc etc but nowadays kids are lost without their calculators. They have lost the ability to do manual calculations. All these tekkie devices are great tools and can be a lot of fun but never forget that your brain has a much bigger processor if you only train it properly.

]]> By: QuesterMark http://blog.geocaching.com/2010/06/geocaching-the-best-work-out-for-your-hippocampus-or-is-it/comment-page-1/#comment-809 QuesterMark Fri, 25 Jun 2010 03:07:58 +0000 http://blog.geocaching.com/?p=665#comment-809 Geocaching has changed my awareness of my surroundings: I already noticed many details that others didn't, but geocaching refined that to bring forward an awareness of what doesn't quite FIT. You know, a man-made object in a natural setting. Even with camo colors, it stands out if your awareness is honed to see that stuff. Also my awareness of other people is sharper. Gotta keep an eye out for muggles. And, as others have already said, that constant searching for a spot that would be a good place to hide a cache.

]]> By: puk21 http://blog.geocaching.com/2010/06/geocaching-the-best-work-out-for-your-hippocampus-or-is-it/comment-page-1/#comment-803 puk21 Thu, 24 Jun 2010 19:16:45 +0000 http://blog.geocaching.com/?p=665#comment-803 FOR SURE! More awareness around here, too!
We've been caching for 4 years and I've learned so much about where we live!
LOVE GEOCACHING!!
And Multi-caches!
Like Jeremy wrote in the last Blogpost about German caching Habits: we really do have many GREAT Multis over here! (((:

Lovely greetings
Katharina – Team “puk21″ (;

]]> By: Yosemidee http://blog.geocaching.com/2010/06/geocaching-the-best-work-out-for-your-hippocampus-or-is-it/comment-page-1/#comment-802 Yosemidee Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:53:24 +0000 http://blog.geocaching.com/?p=665#comment-802 Since I started Geocaching in December of 2009, I have become more aware of my surroundings, not only when I am geocaching but because I am always thinking, “hey that would be a great place for a cache!” I will say that a few times I have wandered into borderline dangerous areas that I would not normally have gone if I wasn't geocaching…. but I am aware I am doing it! And usually because of the “risk” my senses are heightened!

]]> By: stepol http://blog.geocaching.com/2010/06/geocaching-the-best-work-out-for-your-hippocampus-or-is-it/comment-page-1/#comment-801 stepol Thu, 24 Jun 2010 16:45:34 +0000 http://blog.geocaching.com/?p=665#comment-801 It would be interesting to see the taxi driver study repeated in this age of GPS navigation. Geocaching gives us the opportunity to be much more aware of our surroundings as we navigate through various terrain but we can also become GPS dependent and completely ignore our situational clues. I have noticed that I have less situational awareness when I navigate the roads using the GPS than when I use a map or previous knowledge to find my way.

]]> By: Davidfrancistucker http://blog.geocaching.com/2010/06/geocaching-the-best-work-out-for-your-hippocampus-or-is-it/comment-page-1/#comment-798 Davidfrancistucker Thu, 24 Jun 2010 16:02:23 +0000 http://blog.geocaching.com/?p=665#comment-798 I've become WAY more aware and clever. Just now I've created a two part puzzle that involves a series of ciphers. I'm pretty proud of it.

]]> By: Mangatome http://blog.geocaching.com/2010/06/geocaching-the-best-work-out-for-your-hippocampus-or-is-it/comment-page-1/#comment-797 Mangatome Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:54:13 +0000 http://blog.geocaching.com/?p=665#comment-797 Great post, congratulations!
I believe not only pervasive games like Geocaching actually do change us, but they also could change the way we're thinking: isn't there already geocaching seminars for enterprises?

]]> By: Lincoln Adams http://blog.geocaching.com/2010/06/geocaching-the-best-work-out-for-your-hippocampus-or-is-it/comment-page-1/#comment-796 Lincoln Adams Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:49:05 +0000 http://blog.geocaching.com/?p=665#comment-796 I've become more aware of my surroundings, but mostly because one of the first few geocaches I found resulted in me getting poison ivy. :-X Now I look carefully at EVERYTHING just out of paranoia so I don't repeat that unpleasantness again.

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