Sentences with phrase «cognitive map»

When students do not create cognitive maps that they can rely on, the information retrieval process takes significantly longer, reducing mental resources for other tasks.

Cognitive maps inform how people, on average, make sense of the world they live in.

The findings provide fundamental new knowledge about how memory works, Zeithamova said, and eventually could lead to new strategies in educational settings that help students to consolidate new information with previously learned material to build stronger cognitive maps of various topics.

After an initial orientation, the daily repetition of walks to the bus stop or school becomes part of what researchers Stephen Kosslyn and Olivier Koenig (1995) call motor memory: slowly, the environment becomes familiar and gets stored as cognitive maps in the mind of the individual.

It could provide a «global cognitive map «* within which its subjects could understand the universe, life and their place within it.

This extends the existing cognitive map theory of how the hippocampus processes spatial locations and memories.

In this indeterminate space, materials, memories and affects begin to smudge into each other until a sticky cognitive map begins to emerge.

Using the Social Cognitive Map, 162 peer groups were identified.

WIRED and such presented in a manner where cognitive mapping of article placement (left - right - up - down use - case for task = find and then move forward and then re-acquire content) was unsuccessful in more than half the focus group.

Secondly, the church loses its authority to claim sole possession of the Master Signifier and the global cognitive map this Master Signifier provides.

It could provide a «global cognitive map «* within which its subjects could understand the universe, life and their place...

Too much novelty, and you have no way to place it in your cognitive map, but too much familiarity and the information is similarly lost.

The mechanisms by which the brain makes those cognitive maps remains a mystery, but neuroscientists have surmised that the hippocampus computes distances between the subject and surrounding landmarks, such as buildings and mountains.

For example, when a person explores a room, hippocampal neurons become selectively active, providing a «cognitive map» of the environment.

On our cognitive maps are areas labeled «Here Be Monsters,» where we put outsiders perceived to be dangerous.

«We think the cognitive map in the hippocampus is not just for knowing where the self is located,» says Fujisawa, «but also for plotting the locations of other people, animals, or objects, and to comprehend the spatial environment surrounding the self.»

You use this to form and constantly update a cognitive map of where everything is around you.»

«3 - D video games engage the hippocampus into creating a cognitive map, or a mental representation, of the virtual environment that the brain is exploring.,» said West.

The hippocampus can receive information from many different sensory inputs to help build the cognitive map.

This work showed that place cells allow the detection of new environments and also changes in familiar environments, in essence forming a map of the surrounding environment within an animal's brain, termed a cognitive map.

In addition, the cognitive mapping system detects the absence of representations of novel environments and changes in maps of familiar environments and uses these mismatches to trigger and control exploration.

A cognitive map is a device for representing an animal's current environment, its position within it, and the location of both desirable objects, such as food, and threats that should be avoided.

This cognitive map can direct the animal's behaviour on the basis of distances and directions towards desired goals or away from undesirable objects and the locations.

This concept led O'Keefe to propose that the hippocampus acted as a «Cognitive Map» that represented environmental space and guided efficient navigation in rats and, presumably, humans.

Working with Neil Burgess, he has used computational models of the cognitive map to generate theoretical predictions of hippocampal function.

John O'Keefe has continued his work on how the cognitive map theory can be expanded to explain the episodic memory deficit in patients with hippocampal damage.

This led Professor O'Keefe to make the initially controversial but ultimately influential suggestion that the hippocampus held some kind of «cognitive map» of the outside world.

The discovery of place cells suggests that the hippocampus functions as a cognitive map, enabling animals and humans to establish their space and navigate in the environment.

These aspects of the school culture are cognitive maps that prescribe the «normal» features of work.

This may result in collective affirmation of behavior or cognitive maps that interrupt further consideration of the policy.

A print book embodies a host of structural cues that help people build a cognitive map of its structure.

It is the ebook reading app's responsibility to expose the book's marked up information architecture in the UI in a way that helps readers build a cognitive map of the book's structure, which is essential for memory.

Of course, you can provide eBooks with tools such as scroll and progress bars that can help in creating a cognitive map, but it is unlikely that the digital book will ever be able to provide a rich and intuitive set of physical signals that the printed book gives.

not a criticism per se... but this motion of glaciers is complex: at once moving in one direction, retreating in the other and thinning — it therefore seems like a constructive idea to make these motions clear at the outset, people can then form a type of cognitive map, and this will (of course) contribute to understanding, retention and so forth

As a result, they did not build Love Maps (I.e. a cognitive map of their partner's inner psychological world, his or her worries, stresses, joys, and dreams).

Peer groups were assessed using Socio - Cognitive Mapping; as an indicator of motivation, teachers reported on students» classroom engagement.

Cognitive maps and couples, In Jon Carlson and Shannon Dermer (Eds.).

In new research published by Social Psychological and Personality Science, researchers were able to model and study the cognitive map that US citizens have of the US states.