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 …

BACKGROUND Ever since Edward Tolman's proposal that comprehensive cognitive maps
underlie spatial navigation and, more generally, psychological functions, the question of …

A schema refers to a structured body of prior knowledge that captures common patterns
across related experiences. Schemas have been studied separately in the realms of …

Our daily lives unfold continuously, yet when we reflect on the past, we remember those
experiences as distinct and cohesive events. To understand this phenomenon, early …

Highlights•Infants use statistical learning to acquire environmental structure and
regularities.•Statistical learning operates over multiple modalities and levels of …

Human Memory, 4th edition, provides a comprehensive overview of research and theory on
human memory. Written in an engaging style, the book is divided into three sections …

We remember when things change. Particularly salient are experiences where there is a
change in rewards, eliciting reward prediction errors (RPEs). How do RPEs influence our …

Tracking moment-to-moment change in input and detecting change sufficient to require
altering behavior is crucial to survival. Here, we discuss how the brain evaluates change …

The ability to decouple from the present environment and explore other times is a central
feature of the human mind. Research in cognitive psychology and neuroscience has shown …

A group of neurons can generate patterns of activity that represent information about stimuli;
subsequently, the group can transform and transmit activity patterns across synapses to …