From cognitive maps to spatial schemas

D Farzanfar, HJ Spiers, M Moscovitch… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
A schema refers to a structured body of prior knowledge that captures common patterns
across related experiences. Schemas have been studied separately in the realms of …

Structuring knowledge with cognitive maps and cognitive graphs

M Peer, IK Brunec, NS Newcombe… - Trends in cognitive …, 2021 - cell.com
Humans and animals use mental representations of the spatial structure of the world to
navigate. The classical view is that these representations take the form of Euclidean …

The cognitive map in humans: spatial navigation and beyond

RA Epstein, EZ Patai, JB Julian, HJ Spiers - Nature neuroscience, 2017 - nature.com
The'cognitive map'hypothesis proposes that brain builds a unified representation of the
spatial environment to support memory and guide future action. Forty years of …

Spatial navigation deficits—overlooked cognitive marker for preclinical Alzheimer disease?

G Coughlan, J Laczó, J Hort, AM Minihane… - Nature Reviews …, 2018 - nature.com
Detection of incipient Alzheimer disease (AD) pathophysiology is critical to identify
preclinical individuals and target potentially disease-modifying therapies towards them …

Rethinking retrosplenial cortex: Perspectives and predictions

AS Alexander, R Place, MJ Starrett, ER Chrastil… - Neuron, 2023 - cell.com
The last decade has produced exciting new ideas about retrosplenial cortex (RSC) and its
role in integrating diverse inputs. Here, we review the diversity in forms of spatial and …

Scene perception in the human brain

RA Epstein, CI Baker - Annual review of vision science, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Humans are remarkably adept at perceiving and understanding complex real-world scenes.
Uncovering the neural basis of this ability is an important goal of vision science …

Retrosplenial cortex and its role in spatial cognition

AS Mitchell, R Czajkowski, N Zhang… - Brain and …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Retrosplenial cortex is a region within the posterior neocortical system, heavily
interconnected with an array of brain networks, both cortical and subcortical, that is …

Egocentric boundary vector tuning of the retrosplenial cortex

AS Alexander, LC Carstensen, JR Hinman… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
The retrosplenial cortex is reciprocally connected with multiple structures implicated in
spatial cognition, and damage to the region itself produces numerous spatial impairments …

Experience-dependent spatial expectations in mouse visual cortex

A Fiser, D Mahringer, HK Oyibo, AV Petersen… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
In generative models of brain function, internal representations are used to generate
predictions of sensory input, yet little is known about how internal models influence sensory …

Why does space feel the way it does? Towards a principled account of spatial experience

A Haun, G Tononi - Entropy, 2019 - mdpi.com
There must be a reason why an experience feels the way it does. A good place to begin
addressing this question is spatial experience, because it may be more penetrable by …