HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam — At a recent art event in the United Arab Emirates, Tiffany Chung was asked by a journalist to explain the sourcing for one of her artworks, a cartographic drawing of ...

How does the human brain construct cognitive maps for decision-making and inference? Here, we conduct an fMRI study on a navigation task in multidimensional abstract spaces. Using a deep neural ...

To make adaptive social decisions, people must anticipate how information flows through their social network. While this requires knowledge of how people are connected, networks are too large to have ...

The brain creates internal 'maps' to help us navigate and learn from our surroundings, but how these maps form remains a challenge to understand. Now, a study led by Liset M. de la Prida at the Cajal ...

A city’s street plan isn’t just the canvas that we paint our lives on—it’s a work of art on its own. This is true regardless whether the avenues and thoroughfares were meticulously arranged into an ...