title: Grid Cells for Conceptual Spaces?
abstract: "Grid cells" encode an animal's location and direction of movement in 2D physical environments via regularly repeating receptive fields. Constantinescu et al. (2016) report the first evidence of grid cells for 2D conceptual spaces. The work has exciting implications for mental representation and shows how detailed neural-coding hypotheses can be tested with bulk population-activity measures.
authors.affiliation: Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge CB2 7EF, UK. Electronic address: nikolaus.kriegeskorte@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Nikolaus
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kriegeskorte
authors.affiliation: Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge CB2 7EF, UK. Electronic address: katherine.storrs@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Katherine R
authors.initials: KR
authors.lastname: Storrs
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000071038:Grid Cells; D009068:Movement; D009474:Neurons; D009949:Orientation