【Excerpt Note】Population Encoding and Decoding

The content is from the lecture notes (M1_Slides_Population_Coding, M1_Notes_Population_Coding) of ‘Theoretical Systems Neuroscience’ by Professor Wei Ji Ma (Baylor College of Medicine) in 2013. He is now leading the Wei Ji Ma’ lab at Center for Neural

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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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How to get the best current activity state in continuous attractor network with population decoding?

Models of head direction and place cells often use some form of attractor network (Redish, Elga et al. 1996; Zhang 1996; Samsonovich and McNaughton 1997; Stringer, Rolls et al. 2002; Stringer, Trappenberg et al. 2002). Typically an array of cells …

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How to implement the visual processing module for pose calibration in RatSLAM?

In this report, I summarized some key methods for visual processing module in RatSLAM or RatSLAM-based System. There are more than six approaches as following. By comparing and doing some practical experiments, I think that the intensity scanline profile and

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Understanding Cognition in the Human Brain Project

Imagine an apple — its greenness, sour taste and its fresh, crisp crunch; how does the brain create a representation of such an apple?

This is one of the questions the Human Brain Project (HBP) is asking. To better understand …

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Brief News of Cognitive Navigation (2017-003)

1. How the brain keeps time

by Anne Trafton December 4, 2017

  • McGovern neuroscientists discover networks of neurons that stretch or compress their activity to control timing.
  • Timing is critical for playing a musical instrument, swinging a baseball bat, and
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Brief News of Cognitive Navigation (2017-002)

1. This Autonomous Quadrotor Swarm Doesn’t Need GPS

By Evan Ackerman  Posted 27 Dec 2017 

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