Grid Cells for Conceptual Spaces?

Nikolaus Kriegeskorte; Katherine R Storrs

doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2016.10.006

Grid Cells for Conceptual Spaces?

Neuron. 2016 Oct 19;92(2):280-284. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2016.10.006.

Authors

Nikolaus Kriegeskorte¹, Katherine R Storrs²

Affiliations

¹ Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge CB2 7EF, UK. Electronic address: nikolaus.kriegeskorte@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk.
² Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge CB2 7EF, UK. Electronic address: katherine.storrs@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk.

PMID: 27764662
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2016.10.006

Abstract

"Grid cells" encode an animal's location and direction of movement in 2D physical environments via regularly repeating receptive fields. Constantinescu et al. (2016) report the first evidence of grid cells for 2D conceptual spaces. The work has exciting implications for mental representation and shows how detailed neural-coding hypotheses can be tested with bulk population-activity measures.

MeSH terms

Animals
Grid Cells
Movement
Neurons*
Orientation*