People live and interact in a complex web of social relations, processing a vast amount of social information every day and navigating complex social networks — the webs of relationships, friendships ...

Douglas A. Hardwick, Curtis W. McIntyre and Herbert L. Pick, Jr. Comparison of cognitive maps generated by first graders, fifth graders, and college students using a triangulation task revealed that ...

How do we make decisions about a situation we have not encountered before? New work from the Center for Mind and Brain at the University of California, Davis, shows that we can solve abstract problems ...

How do we make decisions about a situation we have not encountered before? New work from the Center for Mind and Brain at the University of California, Davis, shows that we can solve abstract problems ...

Researchers found that mental representations known as cognitive maps, located in the hippocampus and entorhinal cortex, are activated when the brain performs mental simulations of a navigational ...

Mosaic: An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal, Vol. 36, No. 4, a special issue: PILGRIMAGE (December 2003), pp. 49-64 (16 pages) Contemporary metaphor theory provides an important framework for ...

The following is a guest post from Lori Goldberg, CEO of digital marketing agency Silverlight Digital. There are moments every day that we reach for our phones to see what's going on. We find these ...

Echolocating bats have been found to possess an acoustic cognitive map of their home range, enabling them to navigate over kilometer-scale distances using echolocation alone. This finding, recently ...

North/South isn’t the biggest divide in how we think of the United States, according to a new stereotyping study. That would be East/West; and after that, religious/atheist and conservative/liberal.