Cognitive neuroscientists at Brown University investigated one of humanity's favorite pastimes and discovered how people can ...

The future study will look at how incoming students use cognitive maps to navigate through a real social network and how that network changes over time, she added. “This study is really cool because ...

More information: Jae-Young Son et al, Replay shapes abstract cognitive maps for efficient social navigation, Nature Human ...

Scientists have discovered that forming a mental map of a new environment takes more than just recognizing individual ...

They found that cognitive maps associated with moral judgment and affect did not strongly match with crime-type bias, but social cognition, cultural and ideation bias did. This overlap of brain ...

Have you ever wondered how people manage to gossip without getting caught? A new study by cognitive neuroscientists at Brown ...

An insight into why we overthink could have implications for treating anxiety and depression. Researchers at Northwestern University (IL, USA) have used fMRI to map the human brain’s social cognitive ...

Mental maps may exist at the core of many of our most “human” capacities, including memory, imagination, inferences, abstract reasoning and even the dynamics of social interactions.

Social cognition is the study of how people process social information, especially its encoding, ... Largest-Ever Map of the Universe Reveals 10x More Early Galaxies Than Expected.

More information: Jae-Young Son et al, Replay shapes abstract cognitive maps for efficient social navigation, Nature Human Behaviour (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41562-024-01990-w.