Memory
How are locations encoded and retrieved when familiar metric assumptions fail?
Neural Cartography
How does the mind map a world that violates familiar geometry?
Virtual environments allow ibiLab to manipulate the geometry and topology of space itself and observe how memory, orientation, and navigation adapt.
How Does the Mind Map an Impossible World?
Pathfinding
How do people discover routes when intuitive shortcuts become wrong?
Path Integration
How is an internal estimate of position updated through curved or topologically unusual spaces?
Neural Representation
What can unusual environments reveal about hippocampal-entorhinal mapping, place-cell systems, grid-like coding, and relational representations?
Open, and worth answering.
Does the brain learn a new geometry — or approximate it through locally familiar maps?
Which spatial representations remain stable when metric structure becomes unreliable?
How do memory and strategy change as a world becomes less intuitive?
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