A new theory says personal change is like geographical exploration. Just as maps expand when new lands are discovered, our ...

When you find yourself in a new town, you probably walk around it a few times in order to figure out where things are in relation to other things! In a little while it becomes easy. That process is ...

Our brains build maps of the environment that help us understand the world around us, allowing us to think, recall, and plan. These maps not only help us to, say, find our room on the correct floor of ...

How do we make decisions about a situation we have not encountered before? New work from the Center for Mind and Brain at the University of California, Davis, shows that we can solve abstract problems ...

The following is a guest post from Lori Goldberg, CEO of digital marketing agency Silverlight Digital. There are moments every day that we reach for our phones to see what's going on. We find these ...

Hippocampal neurons are thought to form a cognitive map of the environment based on multiple cues. A new study shows that young animals switch between cues more easily than aged animals and also ...

How do we make decisions about a situation we have not encountered before? New work from the Center for Mind and Brain at the University of California, Davis, shows that we can solve abstract problems ...

North/South isn’t the biggest divide in how we think of the United States, according to a new stereotyping study. That would be East/West; and after that, religious/atheist and conservative/liberal.