A recent MIT study carried out on mice revealed that the brain gradually builds up cohesive cognitive maps of whole spaces ...
"On day 1, the brain doesn't represent the space very well," said lead author Wei Guo, a research scientist in the lab of senior author Matthew Wilson, Sherman Fairchild Professor in The Picower ...
In the brain's secondary motor cortex, researchers have discovered two distinct maps that play a crucial role in spatial ...
MIT researchers reveal that sleep is crucial for the brain to form coherent cognitive maps from spatial memories.