The world around us is beyond complicated. One theory of how the brain deals with this complexity is by creating cognitive maps. In part one, we discussed the underlying ideas behind cognitive maps ...

La neurociencia es un campo científico amplio que incluye varios tipos de investigación. Esta investigación abarca desde el nivel microscópico, como las interacciones básicas de las proteínas, los ...

Cells in the hippocampus that signal the position of an agent in the environment. Each place cell is responsive to one (and only one) given subregion of the current space, in which its firing rate ...

Cells found in the entorhinal and orbitofrontal cortices that allow the agent to track their position in space by integrating information about direction and distance (Hafting et al., 2005). Megan ...