The cognitive map in humans: Spatial navigation and beyond

“The connectome refers to the exquisitely interconnected network of neurons (nerve cells) in your brain. Like the genome, the microbiome, and other exciting ‘ome’ fields, the effort to map the connectome and decipher the electrical signals that zap through it to generate your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors has become possible through development

I am walking in a familiar room in my house, few errors will propagate high up my cortex. The highly learned sequences of my house can be handled in the lower sections of the visual, somatosensory, and motor hierarchy. I know the room so well I can even walk around in the dark. My familiarity with the surroundings effectively frees up most of my co

normally memories are stored more or less at random in semantic networks, or webs of association. But you have now stored a large number of memories in a very controlled context. Because of the way spatial cognition works, all you have to do is retrace your steps through your memory palace, and hopefully at each point the images you laid down will

These cells have been called grid cells because they are laid out on a two-dimensional surface like the grid of a map and the pattern of firing looks grid-like.