New research from the Center for Mind and Brain at the University of California, Davis, shows how our brains achieve this by constructing cognitive maps. “The work suggests a new framework for ...

This process ensures that the new pathways become permanent and robust, enabling long-term learning and adaptability. The Power of Cognitive Maps When you explore a new city, your brain initially ...

Now, scientists have determined that learning detailed navigation information ... of areas involved in learning and representing cognitive maps of the world around us." To examine how the ...

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 ...

However, as the animal's learning progressed, the neural activity representing the different corridors started to differentiate further. To see how cognitive maps form in the brain, researchers ...

Among other functions, the OFC supports reward-based learning and decision-making ... two brain regions support the formation of cognitive maps and schemas. Their findings, published in Nature ...

This suggests that the animals' experience influences the creation of cognitive maps, which ensure that ... supporting experience-based spatial learning and navigation. More information: Fish ...

then it would also be critical for the creation of new maps during the initial learning of a new association, i.e., the creation of a new cognitive map." To test the validity of the so-called ...