Tag: Grid Cells

How grid cells could possibly organize?

Anselmi, Fabio, Benedetta Franceschiello, Micah M. Murray, and Lorenzo Rosasco. “A computational model for grid maps in neural populations.” arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.06553 (2019).

The following content is extracted from Anselmi 2019.

Anselmi, Fabio, Benedetta Franceschiello, Micah M. Murray, …

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How the brain implements recognition of familiar faces, objects, and scenes at the neural level?

Bicanski and Burgess 2019 propose that grid cells support visual recognition memory, by encoding translation vectors between salient stimulus features. They provide an explicit neural mechanism for the role of directed saccades in hypothesis-driven, constructive perception and recognition, and

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DeepMind GridCells Code

The DeepMind opens the code of grid cells (Banino et al 2018) via GitHub(https://github.com/deepmind/grid-cells) in Jan. 2019. This package provides an implementation of the supervised learning experiments in Vector-based navigation using grid-like representations in artificial agents, as published …

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How does the brain’s spatial map change when we change the shape of the room?

A latest report about grid cells from Sainsbury Wellcome Centre at UCL. The following is excerpted from the report. 

Our ability to navigate the world, and form episodic memories, relies on an accurate representation of the environment around us. …

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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2014 was awarded to John O’Keefe, May-Britt Moser and Edvard I. Moser “for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain.”

A summary report of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2014 on the www.nobelprize.org 

The following content is excerpted from the reference -The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2014. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2019. Thu. 10 Jan 2019.

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How your brain encodes location?

A latest report titled ‘The Surprising Relativism of the Brain’s GPS’ by ADITHYA RAJAGOPALAN at Cohen Lab, JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, reviewed the brief research history of the Brain’s GPS published in  NAUTILUS

For further info, please read the report …

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Why is it a so difficult problem for navigating in a three-dimensional world?

The excerpt note is about spatial cognition in non-horizontal environments by Jeffery K. J. et al., 2013.

Jeffery, Kathryn J., Aleksandar Jovalekic, Madeleine Verriotis, and Robin Hayman. “Navigating in a three-dimensional world.” Behavioral and Brain Sciences 36, no. …

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iNav 2018: How does the brain know where it is, where it is going, and how to get from one place to another?

The 2nd Interdisciplinary Navigation Symposium (iNav 2018) was held in June 2018 in Québec, Canada, organized by Jeffery Taube, Thomas Wolbers, Kate Jeffery, Laure Rondi-Reig, David Dickman, Mayank Mehta. The meeting aims to bring together a diverse group of scientists …

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Long-distance Navigation and magnetoreception in migratory animals

The excerpt note is about twenty important mechanistic questions related to long-distance animal navigation from Mouritsen, H. (2018).

Mouritsen, H. (2018). Long-distance navigation and magnetoreception in migratory animals. Nature, 558(7708), 50.

Abstract: For centuries, humans have been fascinated by

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How to enable robot cognitive mapping inspired by Grid Cells, Head Direction Cells and Speed Cells?

Taiping Zeng, and Bailu Si. “Cognitive Mapping Based on Conjunctive Representations of Space and Movement.” Frontiers in Neurorobotics 11 (2017).

In this work, the researchers developed a cognitive mapping model for mobile robots, taking advantage of the coding …

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Brief News of Cognitive Navigation (2018-001)

1. Hexadirectional coding of visual space in human entorhinal cortex

by Matthias Nau, Tobias Navarro Schröder, Jacob L. S. Bellmund & Christian F. Doeller in DoellerLab, January 8, 2018

  • Entorhinal grid cells map the local environment, but their involvement
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The story of how the Mosers discovered Grid Cells

Discovering grid cells

From the Mosers' website 

This is the story of how the Mosers discovered Grid Cells, as told by themselves.

We both grew up on remote islands off the west coast of Norway, a couple of hundred miles

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Brain-inspired navigation in robots

Brain-inspired navigation in robots

Source: http://cordis.europa.eu/result/rcn/182985_en.html © European Union, 2016

Could the human brain inspire a new generation of robots able to navigate in complex and unpredictable environments? The GRIDMAP project is trying to unravel its mysteries and translate them

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