Cognitive map

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Author: Dr. John O'Keefe, University College London, UK
Author: Dr. Lynn Nadel, Psychology Department, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

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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.

Invited by: Dr. Eugene M. Izhikevich, Editor-in-Chief of Scholarpedia, the free peer reviewed encyclopedia
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