Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. Sometimes it makes abundant sense to consider a weighty matter ...

Unless you have ever spent hours and hours on a pitch deck or put together market research the old-fashioned way, you likely recall the frustration that came with it, even in its smallest moments.

Researchers have systematically detailed, step by step, how cognitive maps form in the brain's hippocampus -- a region responsible for learning and memory. Our brains build maps of the environment ...