Cognitive maps: Constructing a route with your snout

Mark A Orloff; Erie D Boorman

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2023.08.053

Cognitive maps: Constructing a route with your snout

Curr Biol. 2023 Sep 25;33(18):R963-R965. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.08.053.

Authors

Mark A Orloff¹, Erie D Boorman²

Affiliations

¹ Center for Mind and Brain, University of California, Davis, 267 Cousteau Place, Davis, CA 95618, USA. Electronic address: maorloff@ucdavis.edu.
² Center for Mind and Brain, University of California, Davis, 267 Cousteau Place, Davis, CA 95618, USA; Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis, 135 Young Hall, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA. Electronic address: edboorman@ucdavis.edu.

PMID: 37751711
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.08.053

Abstract

Humans construct cognitive maps of the physical, imagined, and abstract world around us based on visually sampled information. A new study shows how the human brain can also use olfactory cues to form and use cognitive maps.

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MeSH terms

Brain*
Cognition
Cues*
Humans
Smell