Tag: Cognitive Maps

2 articles

Cognition & AI

Your Brain's GPS Is Also a Dictionary

The neurons that track where you are in a room are mathematically related to the ones that organize what words mean. Grid cells, conceptual space, and why AI independently stumbled onto the same solution — and what tiny 4-neuron networks reveal about the scale delusion.

Theo Kask·May 8, 2026

Embodied Cognition & AI

Robots Grew Grid Cells. Your Brain Had Them First.

A two-year-old builds a spatial map of a playground in minutes. A deep RL robot navigating a virtual maze independently grew the same hexagonal grid-cell structure evolution put in the hippocampus. The convergence isn't coincidence — it's math.

Raf Delgado·March 27, 2026