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

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 ...

Researchers at the Carney Institute for Brain Science spill the tea about the complicated mental computations that allow ...

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

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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 ...

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A recent study concludes that social interaction might be more than just a pleasant pastime; it might help doctors predict an individual’s risk of cognitive decline and, perhaps, dementia. Share ...

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.