I have a form of time–space synesthesia, so the new year arrives for me in a very physical way. I feel myself move around the ...

Meet Google’s NotebookLM Learn Your Way, which builds text, slides, audio, and quizzes around your interests, so you grasp ...

Scientists at Duke-NUS Medical School have developed two powerful computational tools that could transform how researchers ...

What do social climbers and gossipmongers have in common? My mother would tell me that both are morally suspect. This moral umbrage is etched into lessons from fairy tales and scripture that we ...

Abstract: This paper presents a cognitive map (CM) model fused with a histogram-based reactive local navigator algorithm for real-time robot mapping and navigation. Drawing inspiration from biological ...

Imagine you live in Europe in 1490. The map you see below (Figure 1) is what you think the world looks like; it’s all there is. A few years later, explorers discover a whole new continent, expanding ...

2️⃣ OK_Images_environment_Map2seq.ipynb Waypoints (lat/lon), headings Fetch and stitch panoramic images Folder with stitched GSV images 3️⃣ OK_environment_description.ipynb GSV images (from Step 2) ...

Summary: A new study shows that the human brain organizes action-outcome associations in cognitive maps, much like how it maps physical space for navigation. These action maps are formed in the ...

The brain uses neurons in the hippocampus, called “place cells,” to remember specific locations. These cells activate when you’re in an area they are tuned to. However, beyond marking particular spots ...