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

Wherever you go in the world, people have heard of Ben Nevis. Britain’s highest mountain is a bucket list prize for hikers of ...

Alfred Downing created accurate sketches of the banks and riverbed of the Columbia River. In 1880, he created a reasonably accurate outline sketch of the Waterville Plateau. He ...

Our brains build maps of the environment that help us understand the world around us, allowing us to think, recall, and plan.

The default mode network (DMN) is a set of interconnected brain regions known to be most active when humans are awake but not ...