Task demands drive choice of navigation strategy and distinct types of spatial representations
Sandhiya Vijayabaskaran,Sen Cheng · COSYNE 2022
Navigation is a complex process that involves several interacting brain regions and has been the subject of intense research for several decades. In general, spatial navigation involves strategies using one of two reference frames: egocentric and allocentric. However, it remains unclear why a particular strategy is chosen over another, and how the neural spatial representations should be related to the chosen strategy. Here, we use a deep reinforcement learning model to investigate whether a navigation strategy could arise spontaneously during spatial learning without imposing a bias onto the
Sat, Mar 19, 2022