BI 024 Tim Behrens: Cognitive Maps

Show notes:

Tim’s Neuroscience homepage:
Follow Tim on Twitter: @behrenstim.
Edward Tolman’s cognitive maps work:
- Cognitive maps in rats and men.
Place Cells and Grid Cells:
- O’Keefe early place cell paper: The Hippocampus as a Spatial Map.
- O’Keefe’s book about the work: The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map.
- Mosers and their students discover grid cells: Microstructure of a spatial map in the entorhinal cortex.
- Overview.
Here’s a good talk Tim gives on the subject: Building models of the world for behavioural control.
Tim’s papers we discuss:
- What is a cognitive map? (Neuron, 2018)
- Organizing conceptual knowledge in humans with a grid-like code (Science, 2016)
Two of the books he recommended:
- Theoretical Neuroscience by Dayan and Abbott.
- Information Theory, Inference and Learning Algorithms by David MacKay.

Show Notes