An Investigation of Conformal Isometry Hypothesis for Grid Cells
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2405.16865v1
- Date: Mon, 27 May 2024 06:31:39 GMT
- Title: An Investigation of Conformal Isometry Hypothesis for Grid Cells
- Authors: Dehong Xu, Ruiqi Gao, Wen-Hao Zhang, Xue-Xin Wei, Ying Nian Wu,
- Abstract summary: This paper investigates the conformal isometry hypothesis as a potential explanation for the emergence of hexagonal periodic patterns in the response maps of grid cells.
We conduct numerical experiments to show that this hypothesis underlies the hexagon periodic patterns of grid cells.
In addition, we propose a conformal modulation of the input velocity of the agent so that the recurrent neural network of grid cells satisfies the conformal isometry hypothesis automatically.
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- Abstract: This paper investigates the conformal isometry hypothesis as a potential explanation for the emergence of hexagonal periodic patterns in the response maps of grid cells. The hypothesis posits that the activities of the population of grid cells form a high-dimensional vector in the neural space, representing the agent's self-position in 2D physical space. As the agent moves in the 2D physical space, the vector rotates in a 2D manifold in the neural space, driven by a recurrent neural network. The conformal isometry hypothesis proposes that this 2D manifold in the neural space is a conformally isometric embedding of the 2D physical space, in the sense that local displacements of the vector in neural space are proportional to local displacements of the agent in the physical space. Thus the 2D manifold forms an internal map of the 2D physical space, equipped with an internal metric. In this paper, we conduct numerical experiments to show that this hypothesis underlies the hexagon periodic patterns of grid cells. We also conduct theoretical analysis to further support this hypothesis. In addition, we propose a conformal modulation of the input velocity of the agent so that the recurrent neural network of grid cells satisfies the conformal isometry hypothesis automatically. To summarize, our work provides numerical and theoretical evidences for the conformal isometry hypothesis for grid cells and may serve as a foundation for further development of normative models of grid cells and beyond.
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