cognitive map in a sentence
Examples
- In most cases, a cognitive map exists independently of a mental map, an article covering just cognitive maps would remain limited to theoretical considerations.
- Specifically, pyramidal cells ( place cells, boundary cells, and grid cells ) have been implicated as the neuronal basis for cognitive maps within the hippocampal system.
- Thus, based on information from studies thus far, the cognitive map theory seems to be most supported and non-spatial theories may fail to take spatial components into account.
- Within directional cues, both explicit cues, like markings on a compass, as well as gradients, like shading or magnetic fields, are used as inputs to create the cognitive map.
- This experiment proved that rats have the ability to generate a cognitive map when exposed to their surroundings and can process this information when needed to complete a task.
- Several types of fish ( particularly goldfish ) have been shown experimentally to have strong spatial memory abilities, even forming " cognitive maps " of the areas they inhabit.
- The neural correlates of a cognitive map have been speculated to be the place cell system in the hippocampus and the recently discovered grid cells in the entorhinal cortex.
- The spatial theory was originally championed by O'Keefe and Nadel, who were influenced by E . C . Tolman's theories about " cognitive maps " in humans and animals.
- As Kardov puts it, Vukovar remains divided by an " invisible boundary line . . . inscribed only on the cognitive map of the members of one particular group ."
- However, there has been some dispute as to whether such studies of mammalian species indicate the presence of a cognitive map and not another, simpler method of determining one's environment.