Torus - a doughnut of grid cell activity

Video: Helmet / Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience

[MagicRon]

I don't think many people can appreciate the significance of this discovery. This raises a lot of questions about how this non-euclidean representation gets rendered in the euclidean space that we perceive from day to day. This is exactly how you get a look at how spatial cognition relates to what cognitive maps (and possibly the physical environment by extension) might actually look like.

[psychicrenegade]

I'm starting to believe that the entire universe is shaped like a torus. I remember there ws a theory at one time that the universe could actually be shaped like a donut...so a torus would make a lot of sense.

[tomislavzg]

Migration of cells in whole body regeneration and rejuvenation also plot a surface of a torus.