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Keyword: cognitive maps ×Clear all

8 claims from 5 papers

1. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Map Making: Constructing, Combining, and Inferring on Abstract Cognitive Maps

   Park, Miller, Nili, Ranganath and Boorman · Neuron · 2020

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   1. Unchecked“Although one dimension was behaviorally relevant, multivariate activity patterns in HC, EC, and vmPFC/mOFC were linearly related to the Euclidean distance between people in the mentally reconstructed 2D space.”
   2. Unchecked“We found that both behavior and neural activity in EC and vmPFC/mOFC reflected the Euclidean distance to the retrieved hub, which was reinstated in HC.”

2. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Framing of grid cells within and beyond navigation boundaries

   Savelli, Luck and Knierim · eLife · 2017

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   1. Unchecked“Although the local, geometric frame of reference often exerted the strongest control over the grids, the remote cues demonstrated a consistent, sometimes dominant, countervailing influence.”

3. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   The mosaic structure of the mammalian cognitive map

   Jeffery · Learning & Behavior · 2024

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   1. Unchecked“The emerging picture is that instead of being a single, unified construct, the map is a mosaic of fragments that are heterogeneous, variably metric, multiply scaled, and sometimes laid on top of each other.”
   2. Unchecked“Important organizing factors within and between fragments include boundaries, context, compass direction, and gravity.”
   3. Unchecked“The map functions not to provide a comprehensive and precise rendering of the environment but rather to support adaptive behavior, tailored to the species and situation.”

4. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Action information is integrated into entorhinal representations of conceptual space and is reflected in eye movements

   Eperon, Doeller, Theves and Bottini · PLoS Biology · 2026

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   1. Unchecked“This action representation was not explained by other properties of the task space, such as link distance between the states or reaction times.”

5. Engineering › Spatial Cognition and Navigation

   Improved Navigation Performance Through Memory Triggering Maps: A Neurocartographic Approach

   Dickmann, Keil, Korte et al. · KN - Journal of Cartography and Geographic Information · 2024

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   1. Unchecked“It seems likely that the activity of grid cells can be stabilized simply by map symbols that are perceived when reading a map.”