Scientists have discovered that forming a mental map of a new environment takes more than just recognizing individual ...

Prosecutors played multiple profanity-laden voicemails that Karen Read left John O’Keefe on the morning he died for jurors in Read's murder trial.

This study builds on research recognized with the 2014 Nobel Prize awarded to May-Britt and Edvard Moser, along with John O'Keefe, for their discoveries on place and grid cells, which form the ...

Grid cells in the entorhinal cortex are considered central to path integration and separate lines of research by Prof Dennis Chan (UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience) and Dr Julija Krupic (UK DRI ...

Mammalian navigation researchers largely accept the cognitive map hypothesis thanks to research by John O’Keefe, May-Britt Moser, and Edvard Moser that won a Nobel Prize in 2014. These scientists ...

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 ...

O’Keefe, J. and Nadel, L. (1978) The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map. Oxford University Press, Oxford. has been cited by the following article: TITLE: Pyramidal and Granule Cells Distribution through ...

The most detailed map ever made of the communication links between the hippocampus – the brain’s memory control centre – and the rest of the brain has been created by Australian scientists. And it may ...

The hippocampus is responsible for the brain's long-term and short-term memory retention, something which now sees a detailed map that will help researchers and the medical industry.

More information: Andres D. Grosmark et al, Reactivation predicts the consolidation of unbiased long-term cognitive maps, Nature Neuroscience (2021). DOI: 10.1038/s41593-021-00920-7 Journal ...

Embedded deep in the brain's temporal lobe, the hippocampus plays a major role in learning and memory. Dr. John O'Keefe’s research was critical to revealing its importance for spatial memory and ...