aspg-21-554-1791475342 20261008160222 American Scientific Publishing Group admin@americaspg.com American Scientific Publishing Group International Journal of Neutrosophic Science IJNS 2692-6148 2690-6805 2020 9 1 Nivetha Martin Department of Mathematics, Arul Anandar College (Autonomous), Karumathur, India Florentin Smarandache Department of Mathematics, University of New Mexico, Gallup, NM 87301, USA Plithogenic sets introduced by Smarandache (2018) have disclosed new research vistas and this paper introduces the novel concept of plithogenic cognitive maps (PCM) and its applications in decision making. The new approach of defining instantaneous state neutrosophic vector with the confinement of indeterminacy to (0,1] is proposed to quantify the degree of indeterminacy. The resultant vector is obtained by applying instantaneous state vector through the connection matrix together with plithogenic operators comprising the contradiction degrees. The connection matrix is represented as fuzzy matrix and neutrosophic matrix and the resultant vector is determined by applying plithogenic fuzzy operators and plithogenic neutrosophic operators respectively. The obtained results are highly feasible in making the decision as it incorporates the contradiction degree of the conceptual nodes with respect to the dominant node. This research work will certainly pave the way for developing new approaches in decision making using PCM. 2020 09 21 554 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 10.54216/IJNS.090101 https://www.americaspg.com/journal/21/article/554 https://www.americaspg.com/storage/6947.pdf