People with higher reasoning skills appear to be better at forming internal maps of how different objects are related in space, according to a study published in Cell Reports. The research provides ...

As humans and other animals navigate their surroundings and experience different things, their brain creates so-called cognitive maps, which are internal representations of environments or tasks.

Some people always know which way is north and how to get out of a building. Others can live in an apartment for years without knowing which side faces the street. Differences among people that ...

People live and interact in a complex web of social relations, processing a vast amount of social information every day and navigating complex social networks — the webs of relationships, friendships ...

How do we make decisions about a situation we have not encountered before? New work from the Center for Mind and Brain at the University of California, Davis, shows that we can solve abstract problems ...