A new study by neuroscientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology sheds light on how the brain creates internal ...

Cognitive maps are internal representations of large-scale navigable spaces. While they have been long studied in rodents, recent work in humans reveals new insights into how cognitive maps are ...

The "cognitive maps" the mice encoded over several days were not literal, precise maps of the mazes, Guo notes. Instead they ...

Researchers found that mental representations known as cognitive maps, located in the hippocampus and entorhinal cortex, are activated when the brain performs mental simulations of a navigational ...

Observing map formation. To see how these cognitive maps form, the researchers used a Janelia-designed, high-resolution microscope with a large field of view to image neural activity in thousands ...

Our brains encode knowledge as what scientists call a cognitive map. In psychology-speak, I lack a cognitive map of San Francisco. “When the human brain gathers visual information about an ...

These findings reconceptualized the way researchers view cognitive maps. Perhaps, besides cognitive maps for navigating our physical environment, we also possess "conceptual maps" for mapping and ...

The future study will look at how incoming students use cognitive maps to navigate through a real social network and how that network changes over time, she added. “This study is really cool because ...

Getting lost in buildings: Architecture can bias your cognitive map. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 3, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2010 / 11 / 101123174336.htm ...

Cognitive maps are prone to bias, and can distort reality. Culture and gender are factors. The design of a building exacerbates these effects, thanks to identical-looking corridors, ...