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 ...

It’s important for people who make judgments that affect others’ lives to understand the potential impact of blind spots about their own needs and biases. Such decisions are often so automatic that ...

The world is constantly changing. In a paper in Nature, Courellis et al. 1 explore, in impressive detail, how the human brain makes generalizations that enable it to adapt to change. As the seasons ...

The story “Monkeys navigate using mental maps just like us” states that most animals don’t possess mental maps of their surroundings (21 August, p 22). I beg to differ. We had a dog who had a highly ...