Show notes:

Tim’s Neuroscience homepage:

Edward Tolman’s cognitive maps work:

Cognitive maps in rats and men.

Place Cells and Grid Cells:

O’Keefe early place cell paper: The Hippocampus as a Spatial Map.

O’Keefe’s book about the work: The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map.

Mosers and their students discover grid cells: Microstructure of a spatial map in the entorhinal cortex.

Overview.

Here’s a good talk Tim gives on the subject: Building models of the world for behavioural control.

Tim’s papers we discuss:

What is a cognitive map? (Neuron, 2018)

Organizing conceptual knowledge in humans with a grid-like code (Science, 2016)

Two of the books he recommended:

Theoretical Neuroscience by Dayan and Abbott.

Information Theory, Inference and Learning Algorithms by David MacKay.