The Brain Maps Out Ideas and Memories Like Spaces | Quanta Magazine
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The Brain Maps Out Ideas and Memories Like Spaces | Quanta Magazine
The Usefulness of a Memory Guides Where the Brain Saves It | Quanta Magazine
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Neuroscientists are building a powerful case that metaphor is far more important to human cognition than has ever been imagined. Many argue it’s the fundamental way that brains understand abstract concepts, such as love, joy, society and economy. It’s simply not possible to comprehend these ideas in any useful sense, then, without attaching them to
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The ‘cognitive map’ hypothesis proposes that brain builds a unified representation of the spatial environment to support memory and guide future action.
The cognitive map in humans: Spatial navigation and beyond
In 1966 Pribram proposed that the brain might interpret information in a similar way to the process by which a hologram records an image. He suggested that the fine fibres in the nerve cells digitize incoming information and store the data in this format. The brain then decodes these stored memory traces in the way a hologram decodes, or more accur
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