Researchers have systematically detailed, step by step, how cognitive maps form in the brain's hippocampus -- a region responsible for learning and memory. Our brains build maps of the environment ...

Ecologists pay too much attention to increasingly rare "pristine" ecosystems while ignoring the overwhelming influence of humans on the environment ... based on natural-world factors such as ...

Our brains build maps of the environment that help us understand the world around us ... how these cognitive maps form in the brain's hippocampus—a region responsible for learning and memory.