Moving our body through space is fundamental to human navigation; however, technical
and physical limitations have hindered our ability to study the role of these body-based cues …

To plan trajectories and navigate, animals must maintain a mental representation of the
environment and their own position within it. This “cognitive map” is thought to be supported …

The way grid cells represent space in the rodent brain has been a striking discovery, with
theoretical implications still unclear. Unlike hippocampal place cells, which are known to …

A central theme that governs the functional design of biological networks is their ability to
sustain stable function despite widespread parametric variability. Here, we investigated the …

Several lines of evidence, including the discovery of place cells, have contributed to the
notion that the hippocampus serves primarily to navigate the environment, as a repository of …

The deep neural nets of modern artificial intelligence (AI) have not achieved defining
features of biological intelligence, including abstraction, causal learning, and energy …

Humans build mental models of the world and utilize them for various cognitive tasks. The
exact form of cognitive maps is not fully understood, especially for novel and complex …

To test the idea that poetic meter emerged as a cognitive schema to aid verbal memory, we
focused on classical Italian poetry and on three components of meter: rhyme, accent, and …

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Extensive computational modeling has focused on the hippocampal formation and
associated cortical structures. This overview describes some of the factors that have …