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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Such cognitive maps were later localized to neurons in a brain region called the hippocampus 3, which is known from human studies to be crucial for the formation of autobiographical memories.

More information: Jae-Young Son et al, Replay shapes abstract cognitive maps for efficient social navigation, Nature Human Behaviour (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41562-024-01990-w.

For instance, once you've formed your cognitive map of the neighborhood around your hotel, you can plan the next morning's excursion (e.g. you could imagine grabbing a croissant at the bakery you ...

These cognitive maps are being recruited to perform mental navigation, without any sensory input or motor output. Professor Mehrdad Jazayeri. In a study in monkeys, ...