Brain Builds and Uses Maps of Social Networks, Physical Space, in the Same Way

Andy Fell — July 22, 2020 - 10:06am

Even in these social-distanced days, we keep in our heads a map of our relationships with other people: family, friends, co-workers and how they relate to each other. New research from the Center for Mind and Brain at the University of California, Davis, shows that we put together this social map in much the same way that we assemble a map of physical places and things.

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Brain Builds and Uses Maps of Social Networks, Physical Space, in the Same Way