By watching the brain process information, she discovered that a specific region plays a key role in spatial navigation — and ...

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

The brains of birds and mammals have diverged substantially during the course of evolution. A research team at the Center for Molecular Biology of Heidelberg University has investigated how similar ...

The benefits of pre-50 activity could be linked to exercise intensity and types of activities people did in their 30s and 40s, though Dr James noted more research is needed to confirm this. The study ...

Abstract: The optimization of fuzzy grey cognitive map (FGCM) can enhance the decision quality of the system in managing uncertainties and incomplete information. Addressing this issue requires a ...

Wednesday marks three years since the death of John O'Keefe, the Boston police officer who was found dead outside the home of another officer in Canton on a snowy morning in January of 2022.

(AP) — The Republican leader of the Illinois House and five voters on Tuesday filed a lawsuit asking the state Supreme Court to throw out the legislative district map as unconstitutionally drawn ...

Marianne Faithfull, British singer and Rolling Stones muse, dies at 78 How can the visible universe be 46 billion light-years in radius when the universe is only 13.8 billion years old? Donald ...

A 24-hour vigil to remember John O'Keefe on the third anniversary of his death was held Tuesday into Wednesday at Canton Police Headquarters, though it was not attended by his friends or family.

Sleep plays a pivotal role in refining the brain’s ability to form and solidify cognitive maps—mental representations ... called place cells in the hippocampus. Over time, weaker neurons ...