Humans and animals use mental representations of the spatial structure of the world to
navigate. The classical view is that these representations take the form of Euclidean …

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 …

The brain creates a model of the world around us. We can use this representation to
perceive and comprehend what we see at any given moment, but also to vividly re …

The discovery of neuronal systems dedicated to computing spatial information, composed of
functionally distinct cell types such as place and grid cells, combined with an extensive body …

The hippocampal–entorhinal system encodes a map of space that guides spatial navigation.
Goal-directed behaviour outside of spatial navigation similarly requires a representation of …

The hippocampus and the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) both have important roles in cognitive
processes such as learning, memory and decision making. Nevertheless, research on the …

Cognitive maps enable efficient inferences from limited experience that can guide novel
decisions. We tested whether the hippocampus (HC), entorhinal cortex (EC), and …

The mammalian hippocampal formation contains several distinct populations of neurons
involved in representing self-position and orientation. These neurons, which include place …

The hippocampus has long been implicated in both episodic and spatial memory, however
these mnemonic functions have been traditionally investigated in separate research strands …

Little is known about the neural mechanisms that allow humans and animals to plan actions
using knowledge of task contingencies. Emerging theories hypothesize that it involves the …