Your brain is moving along the surface of the torus 🤯

Your brain is moving along the surface of the torus 🤯

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Your brain is moving along the surface of the torus 🤯
Shortform link: https://shortform.com/artem In this video we will explore a very interesting paper published in Nature in 2022, which describes the hidden torus in the neuronal activity of cells in the entorhinal cortex, known as grid cells. Place cell video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV-EMA5g288&t=158s Neural manifolds video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHj9uVmwA_0 My name is Artem, I'm a computational neuroscience student and researcher. Socials: Twitter: https://twitter.com/ArtemKRSV Special thanks to Crimson Ghoul for providing English subtitles! REFERENCES: 1.Gardner, R. J. et al. Toroidal topology of population activity in grid cells. Nature 602, 123–128 (2022). 2.Pisokas, I., Heinze, S. & Webb, B. The head direction circuit of two insect species. eLife 9, e53985 (2020). 3.Shilnikov, A. L. & Maurer, A. P. The Art of Grid Fields: Geometry of Neuronal Time. Front. Neural Circuits 10, (2016). 4.Moser, M.-B., Rowland, D. C. & Moser, E. I. Place Cells, Grid Cells, and Memory. Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol 7, a021808 (2015). 5.Lewis, M., Purdy, S., Ahmad, S. & Hawkins, J. Locations in the Neocortex: A Theory of Sensorimotor Object Recognition Using Cortical Grid Cells. http://biorxiv.org/lookup/doi/10.1101/436352 (2018) doi:10.1101/436352. OUTLINE: 00:00 Introduction 00:48 Shortform message 01:41 Disclaimer 02:32 Grid cells & modules 04:48 How data was acquired 05:38 Toroidal coordinates 06:40 Invariance of the torus 07:43 Continuous attractor network 08:10 Outro CREDITS: Footage of mouse running on a torus: Helmet and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology's Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/814124 Thumbnail illustration: by Helmet and the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience Some video footage taken from: "Edvard and May-Britt Moser: A journey into entorhinal cortex" by NTNU University ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYCR0pQLd_U ) Icons by https://biorender.com/ B-roll footage by https://www.pexels.com/