Cognitive Map

• Lynn Nadel*, Psychology Department, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
• John O'Keefe, University College London, UK

Dr. Lynn Nadel accepted the invitation on 24 January 2007 (self-imposed deadline: 24 May 2007).

This article will briefly cover the notion of cognitive maps, and how they are instantiated in the brain, with particular reference to the hippocampus.

Sponsored by: Eugene M. Izhikevich, Editor-in-Chief of Scholarpedia, the peer-reviewed open-access encyclopedia