New research in eLife challenges some long-held ideas about place cells and grid cells and suggests a powerful border-to-place cell pathway for navigation.

Check it out: doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

#Neuroskyence #CompNeuro #AI #PlaceCells #CognitiveMaps

🔬 Excited to share our new paper: "Sensor Movement Drives Emergent Attention and Scalability in Active Neural Cellular Automata"

We found that when neural systems can move their sensors (like animals do!), they develop attention-like behaviors without being explicitly programmed to do so. Post 1/6

I recently participated in two podcast episodes by Paul Middlebrooks (Brain Inspired) and Gaute Einevoll (Theoretical Neuroscience). These conversations were recorded aboard the Hurtigruten cruise ship during a workshop on NeuroAI that I had the pleasure of organizing.

🧠🚀 Exciting new developments in neuroscience! The recent paper "The Fly Connectome Reveals a Path to the Effectome" takes an innovative step forward by combining instrumental variables (IV) with Bayesian priors to efficiently estimate effective connectivity, and how neural circuits drive behavior. 🦟