ERC Starting Grant · 2023
Task-relevant cognitive maps and their role in spatial decision-making
One of the hallmarks of our cognition is the ability to decide by thinking several steps ahead using an internal cognitive map. In the wild, map-based decisions can enable animals to select a target location based on the amount of food available and the cost of reaching there. But how are such decisions made? For example, how does the brain evaluate a nearby location with a small amount of food versus a distal location with more food? What if the route to the distal location is steep? Such spatial decisions are unique because evaluating a location depends not only on the learned properties of the location but also on inferred properties, like distance, that are estimated from an internal…
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