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1. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   A simple model of co-emergence of grid and place fields

   Wang, Morris, Derdikman, Chaudhari and Balasubramanian · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2026

   A recurrent network trained to predict the next sensory observation produces both grid and place cells together, and reproduces several experimental findings without retraining.

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   1. UncheckedThe authors say theirs is the first single-objective model where grid and place cells emerge together, with neither type supervised or pre-built.“To our knowledge, this is the first single-objective model in which grid and place cells co-emerge without supervision of either type, or reliance on pre-existing spatial-cell representations.”
   2. UncheckedIn the authors' model, grid-like and place-like firing patterns appear together across 1,000 training setups, with their mix depending on sensory noise and masking.“The two kinds of spatial codes coexist across 1,000 different training configurations, with their balance set by the amount of sensory noise and masking.”