Nature Communications (Dec 2019)

A non-spatial account of place and grid cells based on clustering models of concept learning

  • Robert M. Mok,
  • Bradley C. Love

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13760-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Spatial maps in the medial temporal lobe (MTL) have been proposed to map abstract conceptual knowledge. Rather than grounding abstract knowledge in a spatial map, the authors propose a general-purpose clustering algorithm that explains how both spatial (including place and grid cells) and higher-dimensional conceptual representations arise during learning.