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 ...

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 ...

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 ...