How Your Brain Organizes Information

To try everything Brilliant has to offer—free—for a full 30 days, visit The first 200 of you will get 20% off Brilliant’s annual premium subscription. My name is Artem, I’m a computational neuroscience student and researcher. In this video we talk about cognitive maps – internal models of outside world that the brain to generate flexible behavior that is generalized across contexts. Patreon: Twitter: OUTLINE: 00:00 - Introduction 02:08 - Edward Tolman 03:48 - Zoo of neurons in hippocampal formation 06:40 - Non spatial mapping 08:21 - Graph formalism 12:21 - Latent spaces 17:22 - Factorized representations 21:51 - Summary 24:47 - Brilliant 26:19 - Outro REFERENCES (in no particular order): 1. Behrens, T. E. J. et al. What Is a Cognitive Map? Organizing Knowledge for Flexible Behavior. Neuron 100, 490–509 (2018). 2. Constantinescu, A. O., O’Reilly, J. X. & Behrens, T. E. J. Organizing conceptual knowledge in humans with a gridlike code. Science 352, 1464–1468 (2016). 3. Aronov, D., Nevers, R. & Tank, D. W. Mapping of a non-spatial dimension by the hippocampal–entorhinal circuit. Nature 543, 719–722 (2017). 4. Whittington, J. C. R., McCaffary, D., Bakermans, J. J. W. & Behrens, T. E. J. How to build a cognitive map. Nat Neurosci 25, 1257–1272 (2022). 5. Whittington, J., Muller, T., Mark, S., Barry, C. & Behrens, T. Generalisation of structural knowledge in the hippocampal-entorhinal system. CREDITS: Icons by and Brain 3D models were created with Blender software using publicly available BrainGlobe atlases () This video was sponsored by Brilliant