2) Grid review.
A detailed tour of the ingredients needed to get grid cells that actually look real. It boils down to:
✅ Path integration
✅ Non-linear readout
✅ Bio constraints (non-negativity and energy)
Almost there on understanding grids!
arxiv.org/abs/2601.12424
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For 20 years the beautiful structure in the grid cell code has presented an attractive puzzle: what computation do these representations subserve, and why does it manifest so curiously in neurons. The...