Testing Geometric Representation Hypotheses from Simulated Place Cells Recordings

Niederhauser, T., Lester, A., Miolane, N., Dao Duc, K., Madhav, M. 

NeurIPS Workshop for Symmetry and Geometry in Neural Representations.

Hippocampal place cells can encode spatial locations of an animal in physical or task-relevant spaces. We simulated place cell populations that encoded either Euclidean- or graph-based positions of a rat navigating to goal nodes in a maze with a graph topology, and used manifold learning methods to analyze these neural population activities. [Code].