This also goes beyond cognitive capacity: Primate neurophysiology is just not the same as rodents. Studying monkeys is necessary to understand the physiology that is uniquely primate
November 12, 2025 at 3:49 AM
This also goes beyond cognitive capacity: Primate neurophysiology is just not the same as rodents. Studying monkeys is necessary to understand the physiology that is uniquely primate
The reductionist way of thinking about place cells overwhelms the field. Many take it as axiomatically true that hippocampus’s job is navigation (because why else would it have place cells?). If space is only correlated to the true drivers, then we undercut understanding the generalized function
November 22, 2024 at 8:58 PM
The reductionist way of thinking about place cells overwhelms the field. Many take it as axiomatically true that hippocampus’s job is navigation (because why else would it have place cells?). If space is only correlated to the true drivers, then we undercut understanding the generalized function