How to build a cognitive map

JCR Whittington, D McCaffary, JJW Bakermans… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Learning and interpreting the structure of the environment is an innate feature of biological
systems, and is integral to guiding flexible behaviors for evolutionary viability. The concept of …

Structuring knowledge with cognitive maps and cognitive graphs

M Peer, IK Brunec, NS Newcombe… - Trends in cognitive …, 2021 - cell.com
Humans and animals use mental representations of the spatial structure of the world to
navigate. The classical view is that these representations take the form of Euclidean …

Geometry of abstract learned knowledge in the hippocampus

EH Nieh, M Schottdorf, NW Freeman, RJ Low… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Hippocampal neurons encode physical variables,,,,,–such as space or auditory frequency in
cognitive maps. In addition, functional magnetic resonance imaging studies in humans have …

[HTML][HTML] Long-term microstructure and cerebral blood flow changes in patients recovered from COVID-19 without neurological manifestations

Y Qin, J Wu, T Chen, J Li, G Zhang… - The Journal of …, 2021 - Am Soc Clin Investig
BACKGROUND The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) rapidly progressed to a global
pandemic. Although some patients totally recover from COVID-19 pneumonia, the disease's …

What to expect where and when: How statistical learning drives visual selection

J Theeuwes, L Bogaerts, D van Moorselaar - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2022 - cell.com
While the visual environment contains massive amounts of information, we should not and
cannot pay attention to all events. Instead, we need to direct attention to those events that …

If deep learning is the answer, what is the question?

A Saxe, S Nelli, C Summerfield - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2021 - nature.com
Neuroscience research is undergoing a minor revolution. Recent advances in machine
learning and artificial intelligence research have opened up new ways of thinking about …

The hippocampus, ventromedial prefrontal cortex, and episodic and semantic memory

ET Rolls - Progress in Neurobiology, 2022 - Elsevier
The human ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC)/anterior cingulate cortex is implicated in
reward and emotion, but also in memory. It is shown how the human orbitofrontal cortex …

Neural tuning and representational geometry

N Kriegeskorte, XX Wei - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2021 - nature.com
A central goal of neuroscience is to understand the representations formed by brain activity
patterns and their connection to behaviour. The classic approach is to investigate how …

[HTML][HTML] Visceral signals shape brain dynamics and cognition

D Azzalini, I Rebollo, C Tallon-Baudry - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2019 - cell.com
Most research in cognitive neuroscience explores how external stimuli are processed by the
brain. However, the brain also receives input from the internal body. We discuss here how …

[HTML][HTML] Planning in the brain

MG Mattar, M Lengyel - Neuron, 2022 - cell.com
Recent breakthroughs in artificial intelligence (AI) have enabled machines to plan in tasks
previously thought to be uniquely human. Meanwhile, the planning algorithms implemented …