Echolocating bats have been found to possess an acoustic cognitive map of their home range, enabling them to navigate over kilometer-scale distances using echolocation alone. This finding, recently ...

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 ...

An edited panel from a figure in the paper shows how neural representations of a cognitive map of a sideways T-shaped maze evolved over five sessions. Each dot is a point in time and each color ...

Researchers have systematically detailed, step by step, how cognitive maps form in the brain's hippocampus -- a region responsible for learning and memory. Our brains build maps of the environment ...

Cognitive maps are internal representations of the external environment. Evidence from monkeys shows that a cognitive map can support the mental navigation of an array of landmarks without sensory ...

In the pursuit of understanding the human mind and its development, philosophers and scholars have embarked on an intellectual journey that spans centuries. Ken Wilber's work, particularly his ...

Scientists have found that the ant is the first known animal both to process the location of odors and to use that information to create a cognitive map. And for ants, that means their pair of ...