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Toric Ideals, Polytopes, And Convex Neural Codes, Caitlin Lienkaemper
Toric Ideals, Polytopes, And Convex Neural Codes, Caitlin Lienkaemper
HMC Senior Theses
How does the brain encode the spatial structure of the external world?
A partial answer comes through place cells, hippocampal neurons which
become associated to approximately convex regions of the world known
as their place fields. When an organism is in the place field of some place
cell, that cell will fire at an increased rate. A neural code describes the set
of firing patterns observed in a set of neurons in terms of which subsets
fire together and which do not. If the neurons the code describes are place
cells, then the neural code gives some information about the …