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BI 132 Ila Fiete: A Grid Scaffold for Memory

Brain Inspired

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Anterinal cortex is the gateway of all the cortical information that goes into the hippocampus. It's a special, older part of cortex and has this remarkable property where it fires at multiple locations when an animal walks around in a circular environment. The animals run along these vertices with no particular direction or cue for them to do so. They can look over the walls as if there were a door which gives them some general orientation. But within the space, locallyas there aren't really any spate, there's no spacial acutees. There's just a featureless, circular environment. An and the animas are just a kind of running around,. usually chasing things like chocolate chips, or

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