Cognitive neuroscience studies in humans have enabled decades of impactful discoveries
but have primarily been limited to recording the brain activity of immobile participants in a …

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 …

The'cognitive map'hypothesis proposes that brain builds a unified representation of the
spatial environment to support memory and guide future action. Forty years 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 …

Navigation ability varies widely across humans. Prior studies have reported that being
younger and a male has an advantage for navigation ability. However, these studies have …

Highlights•The nature of a memory trace, not its age, determines its hippocampal
dependence.•Remote memories rich in perceptual detail still engage the hippocampus …

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 …

The prefrontal cortex (PFC) supports decision-making, goal tracking, and planning. Spatial
navigation is a behavior that taxes these cognitive processes, yet the role of the PFC in …

Abstract Global Positioning System (GPS) navigation devices and applications have
become ubiquitous over the last decade. However, it is unclear whether using GPS affects …

How do pedestrians choose their paths within city street networks? Researchers have tried
to shed light on this matter through strictly controlled experiments, but an ultimate answer …