{"id":2554,"date":"2022-02-07T11:27:44","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T01:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cognav.net\/?p=2554"},"modified":"2022-02-07T11:27:44","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T01:27:44","slug":"how-to-build-a-cognitive-map%ef%bc%9f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/?p=2554","title":{"rendered":"How to build a cognitive map\uff1f"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">James C.R. Whittington, David McCaffary, Jacob J.W. Bakermans, Timothy E.J. Behrens.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2202.01682\"><strong>How to build a cognitive map: insights from models of the hippocampal formation<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0arXiv:2202.01682 [q-bio.NC], 2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Abstract<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cLearning and interpreting the structure of the environment is an innate feature of biological systems, and is integral to guiding flexible behaviours for evolutionary viability. The concept of a cognitive map has emerged as one of the leading metaphors for these capacities, and unravelling the learning and neural representation of such a map has become a central focus of neuroscience. <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">While experimentalists are providing a detailed picture of the neural substrate of cognitive maps in hippocampus and beyond, theorists have been busy building models to bridge the divide between neurons, computation, and behaviour<\/span><\/strong>. These models can account for a variety of known representations and neural phenomena, but often provide a differing understanding of not only the underlying principles of cognitive maps, but also the respective roles of hippocampus and cortex. <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">In this Perspective, we bring many of these models into a common language<\/span><\/strong>, distil their underlying principles of constructing cognitive maps, provide novel (re)interpretations for neural phenomena, <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">suggest how the principles can be extended to account for prefrontal cortex representations and, finally, speculate on the role of cognitive maps in higher cognitive capacities<\/span><\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">James C.R. Whittington, David McCaffary, Jacob J.W. Bakermans, Timothy E.J. Behrens.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2202.01682\"><strong>How to build a cognitive map: insights from models of the hippocampal formation<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0arXiv:2202.01682 [q-bio.NC]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James C.R. Whittington, David McCaffary, Jacob J.W. Bakermans, Timothy E.J. Behrens.\u00a0 How to build a cognitive map: insights from models of the hippocampal formation.\u00a0arXiv:2202.01682 [q-bio.NC], 2022.\u00a0 Abstract \u201cLearning and interpreting the structure of the environment is an innate feature of biological systems, and is integral to guiding flexible behaviours for evolutionary viability. The concept of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,346,519],"tags":[147,845,975],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2555,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554\/revisions\/2555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}