NIH R01 · 2025
Cognitive maps for goal-directed decision making
Abstract Cognitive maps refer to internal representations of spatial and non-spatial relationships between entities (people or things) or events in the external world. There has been widespread excitement generated by recent discoveries that even continuous non-spatial task dimensions may be organized and ‘navigated’ as a cognitive map. These studies suggest the neural representations and computations revealed in physical space may be only one instance of a general mechanism for organizing and “navigating” any behaviorally-relevant continuous task dimensions (e.g. space, time, sound frequency, metric length). This insight raises the intriguing possibility that the well-established coding…
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