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In this study, we suggested a cognitive and computational model of human navigation with a focus on mutual interactions between the hippocampus (HPC) and the mPFC using the concept of synchrony. The Van-der-pol oscillator was used to model the synchronous process of receiving and processing \u201cwhat stream\u201d information. A fuzzy lookup table system was applied for modeling the controlling function of the mPFC in retrieving spatial information from the HPC. The effect of attention level was also included and simulated. The performance of the model was evaluated using information reported in previous experimental research. Due to the inherent stability of the proposed fuzzy-oscillatory model, it is less sensitive to the exact values of the initial conditions, and therefore, it is shown that it is consistent with the actual human performance in real environments. Analyzing the proposed cognitive and fuzzy-oscillatory computational model demonstrates that the model is able to reproduce certain cognitive and functional disturbances in navigation in related diseases such as Alzheimer\u2019s disease (AD). We have shown that an increase in the bifurcation parameter of the Van-der-pol equation represents an increase in the low-frequency spectral power density and a decrease in the high-frequency spectral power as occurs in AD due to an increase in the amyloid plaques in the brain. These changes in the frequency characteristics of neuronal activity, in turn, lead to impaired recall and retrieval of landmarks information and learned routes upon encountering them. 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