@DeltaWye @researchbuzz @ai6yr I don't know if it's been studied, but combining a gender study on sense of direction in rats and some recall studies on the cause of higher retention from analog versus digital books, I suspect that screen based simulations are not as effective as real life experiences for building intuition and direction skills.
I think it would be an interesting study, can you use computer simulations to teach map skills effectively? What brain regions are active in both?