Since the proposal of Tolman (1948) that mammals form maplike representations of familiar
environments, cognitive map theory has been at the core of debates on the fundamental …

Thirty years of research suggests that environmental boundaries—eg, the walls of an
experimental chamber or room—exert powerful influence on navigational behavior, often to …

The ability of animals to find important goals in their environment has been said to require a
form of learning that is qualitatively different from that normally studied in the conditioning …

A lost navigator must identify its current location and recover its facing direction to restore its
bearings. We tested the idea that these two tasks—place recognition and heading retrieval …

Over the last 50 years, cue competition phenomena have shaped theoretical developments
in animal and human learning. However, recent failures to observe competition effects in …

Rats were trained in a triangular-shaped pool to find a hidden platform that maintained a
constant relationship with two sources of information, an individual landmark and one part of …

The effects of stimulus salience and cue validity in the overshadowing of geometric features
of an enclosed arena by discrete landmarks were investigated in rats using the water maze …

Previous studies have suggested that spatial navigation can be achieved with at least two
distinct learning processes, involving either cognitive map‐like representations of the local …

The way in which organisms represent the shape of their environments during navigation
has been debated in cognitive, comparative, and developmental psychology. While there is …

Several recent models of episodic memory have highlighted a potential contribution from the
head-direction system; there is, however, surprisingly little known about the behavioural …