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Symmetries and continuous attractors in disordered neural circuits.

Oct 2026 · Nature Neuroscience · 1 citation · 49 references
Medicine

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This work builds, directly from head-direction cell data, recurrent networks that behave as quasicontinuous attractors, and recovers the ingredients of classical ring attractors, namely, Mexican hat interactions and a spontaneously broken symmetry producing bump states.

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