Cognitive neuroscience seeks generalizable theories explaining the relationship between
behavioral, physiological and mental states. In pursuit of such theories, we propose a …

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 …

As life expectancy continues to increase worldwide, age-related dysfunction will largely
impact our societies in the future. Aging is well established to promote the deterioration of …

Flexibility is a hallmark of memories that depend on the hippocampus. For navigating
animals, flexibility is necessitated by environmental changes such as blocked paths and …

The mammalian hippocampal formation contains several distinct populations of neurons
involved in representing self-position and orientation. These neurons, which include place …

The prefrontal cortex (PFC) supports decision-making, goal tracking, and planning. Spatial
navigation is a behavior that taxes these cognitive processes, yet the role of the PFC in …

Research on human navigation by psychologists and neuroscientists has come mainly from
a limited range of environments and participants inhabiting western countries. By contrast …

The predictive map hypothesis is a promising candidate principle for hippocampal function.
A favoured formalisation of this hypothesis, called the successor representation, proposes …

Many optimization methods for construction site layout planning (CSLP) generate the
shortest path of workers to calculate traveling costs and site safety performance. However …

Plasticity allows organisms to form lasting adaptive changes in neural structures in response
to interactions with the environment. It serves both species-general functions and …