The'cognitive map'hypothesis proposes that brain builds a unified representation of the
spatial environment to support memory and guide future action. Forty years of …

Finding one's way around an environment and remembering the events that occur within it
are crucial cognitive abilities that have been linked to the hippocampus and medial temporal …

Place cells of the rodent hippocampus constitute one of the most striking examples of a
correlation between neuronal activity and complex behaviour in mammals,. These cells …

The authors model the neural mechanisms underlying spatial cognition, integrating
neuronal systems and behavioral data, and address the relationships between long-term …

The neural systems that code for location and facing direction during spatial navigation have
been investigated extensively; however, the mechanisms by which these quantities are …

While the widely studied allocentric spatial representation holds a special status in
neuroscience research, its exact nature and neural underpinnings continue to be the topic of …

Do humans integrate experience on specific routes into metric survey knowledge of the
environment, or do they depend on a simpler strategy of landmark navigation? The authors …

Spatial competence is a central aspect of human adaptation. To understand human
cognitive functioning, we must understand how people code the locations of things, how …

Humans and other animals build up spatial knowledge of the environment on the basis of
visual information and path integration. We compare three hypotheses about the geometry …

Spatial navigation is a fascinating behavior that is essential for our everyday lives. It involves
nearly all sensory systems, it requires numerous parallel computations, and it engages …