Topic: landmark sequence

Cognitive maps are hypothesized memory systems that organize sensory experience into knowledge that can be used flexibly in novel scenarios, such as finding new routes during navigation. Evidence for this hypothesis has been largely limited to experiments with fully observable sensory information. However, to serve as a genuine internal source of knowledge, cognitive maps should also be able to support mental computations in the absence of external cues. To test this hypothesis, we developed a mental navigation task in which monkeys must produce vectors that correspond to moving between pairs