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Entropy of City Street Networks Linked to Future Spatial Navigation Ability

Antoine Coutrot, et al., Nature, Vol. 604, 2022, pp. 104–110

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The Nature study revealing that individuals who grew up in rural or suburban areas navigate better than those from grid-plan cities — and that this effect is correlated with the entropy (complexity) of childhood street networks. The evidence that urban design shapes cognition.

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The Academy · May 27, 2026

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