2026
From movement to cognitive maps: recurrent neural networks reveal how locomotor development shapes hippocampal spatial coding
Marco P Abrate, Laurenz Muessig, Francesca Cacucci, Joshua P Bassett, Hui Min Tan, Thomas Joseph Wills +1
ICLR 2026oral
The hippocampus contains neurons whose firing correlates with an animal's location and orientation in space. Collectively, these neurons are held to support a cognitive map of the environment, enabling the recall of and navigation to specific locations. Although recent studies have characterised the…