Brains and Friends: Lynn Nadel wrote “The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map” with John O’Keefe in 1978. Image by Courtesy of Lynn Nadel ...

John O’Keefe shared the Kavli Prize in Neuroscience in 2014 for discovering that neurons in the hippocampus encode an animal’s location and create a cognitive map for navigation ...

Building on these results, O'Keefe and Nadel 3 proposed that the hippocampus provided the neural instantiation of a spatial map, and they further hypothesized that this map took the form of a ...

New Nobel laureate John O'Keefe and his group recorded groups of individual ... Computational modelling of the hippocampus' cognitive map has helped generate theoretical predictions which ...

The 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to John O´Keefe, May-Britt Moser and Edvard I. Moser for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain.

The mammalian brain is known to produce mental representations of the spatial environment, known as cognitive maps, that help ...

This cognitive map, which is thought to reside in the hippocampus of the brain, gives us the flexibility we need to find our way around in familiar places and to store the events we experience in ...

As humans and other animals navigate their surroundings and experience different things, their brain creates so-called cognitive maps, which are internal representations of environments or tasks ...

In a masterful synthesis, O'Keefe and Nadel 3 proposed the hippocampus as the seat of a Tolmanian cognitive map . However, the parallels between hippocampal function and Tolman's ideas run far ...