ReviewNeuron2018
Navigating Social Space.
Review in Neuron, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 62 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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62 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- The neuroscience of social feelings: mechanisms of adaptive social functioning.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2021Pooled it
- Neural Tracking of Social Navigation in Autism Spectrum Disorder.Biological psychiatry · 2026Article
- From peripersonal space to cognitive maps: An evolutionary perspective.Progress in neurobiology · 2026Review
- Individual differences in prosocial learning are represented in the hippocampal dorsal CA1.Nature neuroscience · 2026Article
- Spatial transcriptomics implicates the thalamus and cortex in autism and schizophrenia.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- The detection of episodic memory in others biases social choice.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Changes in political attitudes are associated with changes in neural responses to political content.Communications psychology · 2026Article
- Loneliness in schizophrenia: Just loneliness.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2025Review
- Primary age-related tauopathy.Acta neuropathologica · 2025Review
- Graph-like organization of non-spatial knowledge about social closeness in movie narratives.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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- The 3D Vertical Maze: A new model system for studying the interactions between social and spatial cognition.Journal of neuroscience methods · 2025Article
- Not just social networks: How people infer relations from mutual connections.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2025Article
- Dysregulation of the mTOR-FMRP pathway and synaptic plasticity in an environmental model of ASD.Molecular psychiatry · 2025Article
- Social knowledge about others is anchored to self-knowledge in the hippocampal formation.PLoS biology · 2025Article
- Social avoidance can be quantified as navigation in abstract social space.Communications psychology · 2025Article
- Milgram's experiment in the knowledge space: individual navigation strategies.EPJ data science · 2025Article
- Unraveling sex differences in maternal and paternal care impacts on social behaviors and neurobiological responses to early-life adversity.Frontiers in neuroendocrinology · 2025Review
- The Relative Contributions of Traits and Contexts on Social Network Learning.Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science · 2025Article
- Interactions between neural representations of the social and spatial environment.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024Review
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Abstract
Cognitive maps are encoded in the hippocampal formation and related regions and range from the spatial to the purely conceptual. Neural mechanisms that encode information into relational structures, up to an arbitrary level of abstraction, may explain such a broad range of representation. Research now indicates that social life can also be mapped by these mechanisms: others' spatial locations, social memory, and even a two-dimensional social space framed by social power and affiliation. The systematic mapping of social life onto a relational social space facilitates adaptive social decision making, akin to social navigation. This emerging line of research has implications for cognitive mapping research, clinical disorders that feature hippocampal dysfunction, and the field of social cognitive neuroscience.
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