3 papers
q-bio.NC2026
If Grid Cells are the Answer, What is the Question? A Review of Normative Grid Cell Theory
William Dorrell, James C. R. Whittington
For 20 years the beautiful structure in the grid cell code has presented an attractive puzzle: what computation do these representations subserve, and why does it manifest so curio…
q-bio.NC2026
Convex Efficient Coding
William Dorrell, Peter E. Latham, James Whittington
Why do neurons encode information the way they do? Normative answers to this question model neural activity as the solution to an optimisation problem; for example, the celebrated…
q-bio.NC2025
Range, not Independence, Drives Modularity in Biologically Inspired Representations
Will Dorrell, Kyle Hsu, Luke Hollingsworth +6
Why do biological and artificial neurons sometimes modularise, each encoding a single meaningful variable, and sometimes entangle their representation of many variables? In this wo…