➡️ The model learns place cells from border cells, with no grid cells needed.

➡️ These artificial place cells "remap" just like real ones when the environment changes.

➡️ A strange finding: The place cell centers form a hexagonal grid! 🤯 We even found preliminary evidence for this in mouse brains.

What do you think about the role of movement in perception for next-generation AI systems?
#AI #NeuralNetworks #ActiveSensing #CellularAutomata #Robotics #Perception #MachineLearning #ArtificialLife

6/6

Fantastic work by the talented @Mia-Katrin Kvalsund and the team @sidneypontesfilho.bsky.social, @kyrre2000.bsky.social , and @kaiolae.bsky.social

5/6

For more info, see our video description at youtu.be/-ERmvXo0XTs

And the entire manuscript at www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

4/6

Our research bridges neuroscience and AI by showing how distributed neural architectures can interact with movement, offering new insights for adaptive, embodied AI systems.

This could be particularly valuable for robotics applications where sensor movement and fault tolerance are crucial.

3/6

1️⃣ Active sensing emerges without explicit attention mechanisms
2️⃣ Movement allows the system to focus on salient information, simplifying classification tasks
3️⃣ The architecture becomes highly scalable when paired with movement
4️⃣ These systems show remarkable fault tolerance to damaged sensors
2/6

@gauteeinevoll.bsky.social

Read more about the workshop here:
www.simula.no/about/news/n...

And here is the program:
www.mn.uio.no/ccse/english...

You can find them both at BrainInspired and in the Theoretical Neurocience Podcast:
braininspired.co/podcast/195/
braininspired.co/podcast/196/
theoreticalneuroscience.no/thn19/
theoreticalneuroscience.no/thn20/

Proud to see this research build on concepts from our own paper, "Inferring Causal Connectivity from Pairwise Recordings and Optogenetics,". It’s amazing to see how these tools continue to push the boundaries of understanding brain connectivity and function! 💡🔬

journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

#NeuroScience #Connectomics #CausalInference #Optogenetics #IV

www.nature.com/articles/s41...