▪ Abstract The medial temporal lobe includes a system of anatomically related structures that
are essential for declarative memory (conscious memory for facts and events). The system …

Immersive virtual environments can break the deep, everyday connection between where
our senses tell us we are and where we are actually located and whom we are with. The …

As Titchener pointed out more than one hundred years ago, attention is at the center of the
psychological enterprise. Attention research investigates how voluntary control and …

People perceive and conceive of activity in terms of discrete events. Here the authors
propose a theory according to which the perception of boundaries between events arises …

We used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to assess the maximal degree of
shared neural processing in visual mental imagery and visual perception. Participants either …

Normal aging and mild Alzheimer's disease (AD) are associated with declines in
navigational skills, including allocentric and egocentric representations, cognitive mapping …

Finding one's way in a large-scale environment may engage different cognitive processes
than following a familiar route. The neural bases of these processes were investigated using …

Spatial navigation can serve as a model system in cognitive neuroscience, in which specific
neural representations, learning rules, and control strategies can be inferred from the vast …

In rats, the firing sequences observed in hippocampal ensembles during spatial learning are
replayed during subsequent sleep, suggesting a role for posttraining sleep periods in the …

There is evidence, beginning with Cheng (1986), that mobile animals may use the geometry
of surrounding areas to reorient following disorientation. Gallistel (1990) proposed that …