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

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 ...

Place cells are well known to encode individual locations, but new experiments and analysis indicate that stitching together ...

Place cells in the hippocampus integrate signals from other brain regions to create and adapt memories of locations, shedding ...

Researchers found that mental representations known as cognitive maps, located in the hippocampus and entorhinal cortex, are activated when the brain performs mental simulations of a navigational ...

Researchers have systematically detailed, step by step, how cognitive maps form in the brain's hippocampus -- a region responsible for learning and memory. Our brains build maps of the environment ...

Echolocating bats have been found to possess an acoustic cognitive map of their home range, enabling them to navigate over kilometer-scale distances using echolocation alone. This finding, recently ...

Socrates famously stated, “The unexamined life is not worth living.” The Delphic maxims urged, "Know yourself.” Modern psychotherapists, coaches, and spiritual teachers advise us to explore ourselves ...