We prove some facts about locales L equipped with the Scott topology \({\Omega }(L)\) , in particular studying a canonical frame homomorphism \(\phi :{\Omega }(L)\rightarrow L\) which is motivated by an application to cognitive science. Such a topological locale L is called a Scott locale if the inclusion of primes \(p:{\Sigma }(L)\rightarrow L\) is continuous. We prove that the spectrum \({\Sigma }(L)\) of a Scott locale L is necessarily \(T_1\) , and that preregular locales (a generalization of regular locales) are Scott locales. If L is the topology of a topological space X we find a (necessarily unique) continuous map \(f:X\rightarrow L\) such that \(f^{-1}=\phi \) and compare it with the points-to-primes map \(p:X\rightarrow L\) , showing that \(f=p\) if and only if X is preregular, and that a sober space X is Hausdorff if and only if X is \(T_1\) and \(f(X)\subseteq {\Sigma }(L).\)
