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 ...

This cognitive map, which is thought to reside in the hippocampus of the brain, gives us the flexibility we need to find our way around in familiar places and to store the events we experience in ...

The cognitive map allows for computation on the fly with limited information, Boorman said. "It's useful when the decisions are novel," he said.

An internal cognitive map can be used to solve abstract problems like finding novel route between two different location, finds a study published in the journal Nature Neuroscience.

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 ...

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 ...

Fuzzy Cognitive Map (FCM): A modelling tool that integrates fuzzy logic with cognitive maps to represent and analyse complex systems by capturing cause-and-effect relationships in a network structure.

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 ...

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, ...