An environment is "legible" if it's easy to survey and form a cognitive map of.
O'Keefe, J. & Nadel, L. The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map (Oxford University Press, 1978).
O'Keefe, J. & Nadel, L. The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map (Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford, 1978).
O'Keefe, J. & Nadel, L. The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map (Clarendon, Oxford, 1978).
O'Keefe, J. & Nadel, L. The hippocampus as a cognitive map (Clarendon Oxford, 1978).
The environment, he argues, "is like a prosthesis for those who have difficulty carrying a cognitive map".
This paper reports on statistical results of an animat behavior in an unknown environment using a cognitive map.
O'Keefe, J. & Nadel, L. The Hippocampus As A Cognitive Map (Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1978).
Wilson, R. C., Takahashi, Y. K., Schoenbaum, G. & Niv, Y. Orbitofrontal cortex as a cognitive map of task space.
Instead, we use a dynamic tool, a cognitive map, a kind of internal representation of our surroundings that becomes familiar.
The prefrontal cortex integrates this information to build a cognitive map representing the environment.
