Summary: Show notes: Tim’s Neuroscience homepage: Follow Tim on Twitter: @behrenstim. 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.
