Modelling hippocampal neurons of animals
navigating in VR with recurrent neural networks

Marco P. Abrate, Daniel Liu        University College London (UCL)

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Outline

Part 1: Rat simulation in 3D

• Motion model with RatInABox

• Environment design

• Simulated rat vision with ratvision

Part 2: Vision autoencoder

Part 3: Hippocampus model with RNN

Part 4: Hidden state representations analysis

• Rate maps

• Polar maps

• Quantitive metrics

• Applications