Our brains constantly create internal maps of the world, allowing us to navigate spaces, recall past experiences, ...

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

Credit: Sun and Winnubst et al. "We are mapping out the step-by-step process of cognitive map formation, which is such an important concept," says Weinan Sun, an assistant professor at Cornell ...

In a study led by Honghuang Lin, Ph.D., professor of medicine and co-director of the Program in Digital Medicine at UMass ...

A new study has uncovered a revolutionary way to measure how quickly our brains are aging—not just how old they appear to be.

But knowledge has never really worked that way. For centuries, we’ve been forced to traverse other people’s cognitive maps—books, academic frameworks, structured curricula—each offering ...

Graduate student already enrolled in a CU Boulder PhD program specified below can earn a combined PhD with cognitive science. Earning such a degree can significantly enhance a student’s academic ...