Topological Schemas of Cognitive Maps and Spatial Learning

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dc.citation.articleNumber18
dc.citation.journalTitleFrontiers in Computational Neuroscienceen_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber10en_US
dc.contributor.authorBabichev, Andreyen_US
dc.contributor.authorCheng, Senen_US
dc.contributor.authorDabaghian, Yuri A.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2016-06-27T18:44:08Z
dc.date.available2016-06-27T18:44:08Z
dc.date.issued2016en_US
dc.description.abstractSpatial navigation in mammals is based on building a mental representation of their environment-a cognitive map. However, both the nature of this cognitive map and its underpinning in neural structures and activity remains vague. A key difficulty is that these maps are collective, emergent phenomena that cannot be reduced to a simple combination of inputs provided by individual neurons. In this paper we suggest computational frameworks for integrating the spiking signals of individual cells into a spatial map, which we call schemas. We provide examples of four schemas defined by different types of topological relations that may be neurophysiologically encoded in the brain and demonstrate that each schema provides its own large-scale characteristics of the environment-the schema integrals. Moreover, we find that, in all cases, these integrals are learned at a rate which is faster than the rate of complete training of neural networks. Thus, the proposed schema framework differentiates between the cognitive aspect of spatial learning and the physiological aspect at the neural network level.en_US
dc.identifier.citationBabichev, Andrey, Cheng, Sen and Dabaghian, Yuri A.. "Topological Schemas of Cognitive Maps and Spatial Learning." <i>Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience,</i> 10, (2016) Frontiers Media S.A.: http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fncom.2016.00018.
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fncom.2016.00018en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/90802
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherFrontiers Media S.A.
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dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en_US
dc.subject.keywordhippocampusen_US
dc.subject.keywordlearning and memoryen_US
dc.subject.keywordmathematical conceptsen_US
dc.subject.keywordtheoretical neuroscienceen_US
dc.subject.keywordtopological analysisen_US
dc.titleTopological Schemas of Cognitive Maps and Spatial Learningen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
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