Entropy of city street networks linked to future spatial navigation ability

A Coutrot, E Manley, S Goodroe, C Gahnstrom… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The cultural and geographical properties of the environment have been shown to deeply
influence cognition and mental health,,,,–. Living near green spaces has been found to be …

City living and urban upbringing affect neural social stress processing in humans

F Lederbogen, P Kirsch, L Haddad, F Streit, H Tost… - Nature, 2011 - nature.com
More than half of the world's population now lives in cities, making the creation of a healthy
urban environment a major policy priority. Cities have both health risks and benefits, but …

[HTML][HTML] Human mobility networks reveal increased segregation in large cities

H Nilforoshan, W Looi, E Pierson, B Villanueva… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
A long-standing expectation is that large, dense and cosmopolitan areas support
socioeconomic mixing and exposure among diverse individuals,,,,–. Assessing this …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of urban living environments on mental health in adults

J Xu, N Liu, E Polemiti, L Garcia-Mondragon, J Tang… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Urban-living individuals are exposed to many environmental factors that may combine and
interact to influence mental health. While individual factors of an urban environment have …

Deforming the metric of cognitive maps distorts memory

JLS Bellmund, W De Cothi, TA Ruiter, M Nau… - Nature human …, 2020 - nature.com
Environmental boundaries anchor cognitive maps that support memory. However,
trapezoidal boundary geometry distorts the regular firing patterns of entorhinal grid cells …

Neural correlates of individual differences in affective benefit of real-life urban green space exposure

H Tost, M Reichert, U Braun, I Reinhard, R Peters… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Psychiatric morbidity is high in cities, so identifying potential modifiable urban protective
factors is important. We show that exposure to urban green space improves well-being in …

A global map of travel time to cities to assess inequalities in accessibility in 2015

DJ Weiss, A Nelson, HS Gibson, W Temperley… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
The economic and man-made resources that sustain human wellbeing are not distributed
evenly across the world, but are instead heavily concentrated in cities. Poor access to …

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 …

Lost in transportation: Information measures and cognitive limits in multilayer navigation

R Gallotti, MA Porter, M Barthelemy - Science advances, 2016 - science.org
Cities and their transportation systems become increasingly complex and multimodal as
they grow, and it is natural to wonder whether it is possible to quantitatively characterize our …

[HTML][HTML] Predicting where we walk

M Batty - Nature, 1997 - nature.com
Predicting where we walk | Nature Skip to main content Thank you for visiting nature.com. You
are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we …