Many of us may have read this by now. It would be interesting to see how this fits into the concepts at work in future development within Nupic .
*"Nobel prize in medicine awarded for discovery of brain’s ‘GPS’**"* *"He found that when he placed rats in certain parts of a room different cells in the brain’s hippocampus – which is believed to be important in functions related to space and memory -- were always activated. He theorized that these areas that he called “place cells” formed a map of the room."* http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2014/10/06/nobel-prize-in-medicine-awarded-for-discovery-of-brains-gps/ *From Wikipedia* [image: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5e/Place_Cell_Spiking_Activity_Example.png] *"A place cell is a type of pyramidal <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramidal_cell> neuron <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuron> within the hippocampus <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocampus> that becomes active when the animal enters a particular place in the environment; this place is known as the place field. A given place cell will have only one, or a few, place fields in a typical small laboratory environment, but more in a larger region.[1] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Place_cell#cite_note-1> There is no apparent topography to the pattern of place fields, unlike other brain areas such as visual cortex - neighbouring place cells are as likely to have distant fields as neighbouring ones.[2] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Place_cell#cite_note-2> In a different environment, typically about half the place cells will still have place fields, but these will be in new places unrelated to their former locations.**"* <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Place_cell#cite_note-3> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Place_cell Regards Chandan
