A recent MIT study carried out on mice revealed that the brain gradually builds up cohesive cognitive maps of whole spaces ...
Caption 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 ...
As this was happening, Guo's analyses showed, the network encoded a cognitive map of the maze that increasingly resembled the literal, physical space. "Although not responding to specific ...
MIT researchers reveal that sleep is crucial for the brain to form coherent cognitive maps from spatial memories.