The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map

O'Keefe, J., & Nadel, L. (1978). The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map. Clarendon Press.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1978

Link

https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10103569/

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cognitive_science, computer_science, neuroscience, rhetoric

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4 citations across 4 artifacts.

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Primes

• Memory Palace (Method of Loci)
  • The spatial-cognition substrate is the neural foundation: the hippocampus, parahippocampal cortex, and retrosplenial cortex that support allocentric spatial representation and cognitive mapping.

    This sourceFoundational neuroscience text describing hippocampal place cells and allocentric spatial representation; theoretical basis for understanding spatial memory in Memory Palace technique. hippocampal place cells and allocentric spatial representation

• Navigation
  • In spatial wayfinding, its origin domain, humans and animals navigate physical environments using cognitive maps, landmarks, dead-reckoning, and external aids, with the place-cell and grid-cell apparatus as the canonical neural substrate.

    This sourceEstablishes the cognitive-map theory of spatial navigation and the place-cell substrate; with later grid-cell work, the canonical neural account of wayfinding (landmarks, paths, survey knowledge).

• Remapping
  • The shared substrate is a fixed population of pyramidal neurons in CA1; a single neuron is one unit serving all contexts.

    This sourceFoundational account of hippocampal place cells as the substrate of spatial maps.

• Spatial Indexing
  • In neuroscience, hippocampal place cells encode positions and grid cells provide a coordinate basis, increasingly understood as a general indexing substrate used even for non-spatial memory.

    This sourceFoundational account of hippocampal place cells encoding spatial position and the hippocampus as a spatial indexing/mapping substrate.

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