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1. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   The hippocampus as a predictive map

   Stachenfeld, Botvinick and Gershman · Nature Neuroscience · 2017

   The paper argues from reinforcement learning that hippocampal place cells encode a predictive representation of future locations, and that entorhinal grid cells provide a compact basis set for it.

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   1. UncheckedA predictive representation of space, built from a reinforcement learning view, is said to capture place cell responses that a pure cognitive map does not explain.“This representation captures many aspects of place cell responses that fall outside the traditional view of a cognitive map.”
   2. Unchecked“Furthermore, we argue that entorhinal grid cells encode a low-dimensionality basis set for the predictive representation, useful for suppressing noise in predictions and extracting multiscale structure for hierarchical planning.”