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The Brain's GPS
GRID CELLS · PLACE CELLS · A COGNITIVE MAP OF SPACE · NOBEL 2014
FLOOR SHOWSgrid · medium
Click a cell to project it onto the floor. 0% of the arena explored.
Drive the mouse with WASD / arrows or drag on the floor; or just watch it forage. Grid cells tile space with hexagons — your brain's ruler. Drag to orbit · ⌘/Ctrl+scroll to zoom.
RATE MAPSlive
Each tile is one neuron's firing map, filling in as the mouse explores — place fields are single blobs, grid fields are hexagonal lattices.