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Topic: hippocampal cell types

Seminar
1 seminar

In Algebra and Applied Mathematics

Seminar · Cognition

The algebra of cognition

Chris Eliasmith · University of Waterloo

Wed, Nov 20, 2024 · 16:00 UTC

In recent years, my lab and others have demonstrated the value of vector symbolic algebras (VSAs) for capturing a wide variety of neural and behavioural results. In this talk I discuss the surprising and compelling variety of tasks and styles of reasoning that are well-suited to descriptions using a specific VSA. These tasks include path integration, navigation, Bayesian reasoning, sampling, memorization, and logical inference. The resulting spiking neural network models capture various hippocampal cell types (grid, place, border, etc.), behavioural errors, and a variety of observed neural dyn