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"..hippocampal-prefrontal systems represent emotion concepts in a map-like way at multiple levels of abstraction.."

Map-like representations of emotion knowledge in hippocampal-prefrontal systems
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@yumengma.bsky.social and @pkragel.bsky.social

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February 9, 2026 at 9:35 AM
Visited Ambler, PA and got a chance to see an older wayfinding project that was installed awhile back. Garden IDs and kiosks.

#wayfinding #wayfindingdesign #arboretum #signdesign #garden #design
November 17, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Why Wayfinding is an Interaction Enabler for City Planners

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Why Wayfinding is an Interaction Enabler for City Planners | Geo Week News
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April 26, 2025 at 12:50 PM
“Even a freeway is redeemable”: World’s largest wildlife crossing takes shape in Los Angeles - The Guardian

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‘Even a freeway is redeemable’: world’s largest wildlife crossing takes shape in Los Angeles — Guardian US
A wildlife crossing across the 101 freeway will connect two parts of the Santa Monica mountains for animals
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April 7, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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Huh? The valuable role of interjections arstechnica.com/science/2025...
Huh? The valuable role of interjections
Utterances like um, wow, and mm-hmm aren’t garbage—they keep conversations flowing.
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March 10, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Inlaid floor finger pointer in stone. St Bartholomew-the-Less. Clerkenwell. Nice.
January 21, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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The Medieval Masterpiece, the Book of Kells, Is Now Digitized and Available Online

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The Medieval Masterpiece, the Book of Kells, Is Now Digitized and Available Online
If you know nothing else about medieval European illuminated manuscripts, you surely know the Book of Kells. “One of Ireland’s greatest cultural treasures” comments Medievalists.net, “it is set apart ...
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November 30, 2024 at 6:41 AM
Cognitive problem-solving benefits from cognitive maps aiding navigation and planning—Nature.com

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A hierarchical active inference model of spatial alternation tasks and the hippocampal-prefrontal circuit
Nature Communications - How cognitive maps of physical and task space interact when executing cognitive tasks is not fully understood. This paper models how the hippocampal-prefrontal circuits...
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November 24, 2024 at 7:15 PM
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People like round contours better than angular contours.

Where and how is curvature represented in the brain?

With indoor architecture we found a neural dissociation between subjective curvature and computational curvature.

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November 4, 2024 at 5:48 PM
Study explores impact of active navigation and immersive environments on episodic memory

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Study explores impact of active navigation and immersive environments on episodic memory
Just like a time machine, episodic memory enables us to travel to the past in our minds and relive personal experiences with full clarity, as if we were going through them all over again.
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October 18, 2024 at 8:41 PM
Frontiers | The Effect of Internal and External Visualization of Rotation on Postural Stability

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Frontiers | The Effect of Internal and External Visualization of Rotation on Postural Stability
During mental rotation tasks, it is assumed that participants visualize a rotation of objects in their minds (internal visualization), but mental rotation ha...
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October 17, 2024 at 9:09 PM
Primate superior colliculus is causally engaged in abstract higher-order cognition | Nature Neuroscience

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Primate superior colliculus is causally engaged in abstract higher-order cognition - Nature Neuroscience
Neuronal recordings show that primate superior colliculus encodes learned abstract visual categories. The authors demonstrate that it plays a causal role in categorization behavior, independent of its...
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September 26, 2024 at 6:17 PM
A population code for spatial representation in the zebrafish telencephalon | Nature
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A population code for spatial representation in the zebrafish telencephalon - Nature
Using a tracking microscope for freely moving animals, the authors discover a population of place cells in the zebrafish brain and demonstrate that a non-amniote brain is capable of integrating alloth...
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August 29, 2024 at 6:48 PM
Spent the week in Anchorage, Alaska, conducting a wayfinding study. #alaska #wayfinding #wayfindingdesign
June 30, 2024 at 5:33 PM