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THOUGHT   Cognitive maps Your - Sense of direction?	Maps DESIGN 'True South'
Ancient maps - periplus EDUCATION for All	Maps - Power   Our - Sense of direction?

Previously: 'thought' : 'education' : 'design' : 'cognitive map'

My source:  https://x.com/NobelPrize/status/2098073718371262921?s=20 and @TED_ED

The cognitive map ...

"... in infra-humans should be viewed as a spatial map in which representations of objects experienced in the environment are ordered within a framework generating a unitary space. However, the central property of the locale system is its ability to order representations in a structured context. We hope to show, in this final section of the book, that mapping structures can represent verbal, as well as non-verbal, information. For both of these forms the locale system will be shown to be central to a particular form of memory: that concerned with the representation of experiences within a specific context. We shall argue that memory comes in two basic varieties: (1) memory for items, independent of the time or place of their occurrence; (2) memory for items or events within a spatio-temporal context." p.380-381.

John O'Keefe and Lynn Nadel. (1978) The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map. Chapter 14, An extension of the theory to humans. Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp.380-410.

The Hippocampus as a
Cognitive Map

(with a dedication)

TO
E. C. TOLMAN
Who first dreamed of cognitive maps in rats and men
D. O. HEBB
Who taught us to look for those maps in the brain
AND
A. BLACK
Who insisted that we pursue our route with rigour

 

 

Source: my notes mid-1990s.

Book cover: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2645838-the-hippocampus-as-a-cognitive-map