BACKGROUND Ever since Edward Tolman's proposal that comprehensive cognitive maps
underlie spatial navigation and, more generally, psychological functions, the question of�…

Humans and animals use mental representations of the spatial structure of the world to
navigate. The classical view is that these representations take the form of Euclidean�…

Human episodic memory critically depends on subregions of the medial temporal lobe,
which are part of functional brain systems such as the anterior-temporal and the posterior�…

Memory systems consolidation is often conceived as the linear, time-dependent,
neurobiological shift of memory from hippocampal-cortical to cortico-cortical dependency�…

Our ability to remember or imagine specific events involves the construction of complex
mental representations, a process that engages cortical and hippocampal regions in a core�…

A schema refers to a structured body of prior knowledge that captures common patterns
across related experiences. Schemas have been studied separately in the realms of�…

Memory transformation is increasingly acknowledged in theoretical accounts of systems
consolidation, yet how memory quality and neural representation change over time and how�…

Memory and planning rely on learning the structure of relationships among experiences.
Compact representations of these structures guide flexible behavior in humans and animals�…

The hippocampus supports multiple cognitive functions including episodic memory. Recent
work has highlighted functional differences along the anterior–posterior axis of the human�…

According to most memory theories, encoding involves continuous communication between
the hippocampus and neocortex, but recent work has shown that key moments at the end of�…