How Your Brain Organizes Information

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wait are you telling me there is an arbitrary hexagonal grid of points in my room where specific cells light up the most?

I'm a postdoc in the intersection of neuroscience and AI, specifically about the generalization subject, and I just want to say that you are doing an amazing job communicating scientific discoveries, which is specially hard for things that happen in the brain. Huge congrats.

Amazing video! Neuroscience for those of us without a PhD -- explained as simply as possible but no simpler. It's so fascinating to me how complicated the brain is, and yet it has these basic building block structures that we can actually make sense of.

This videos, apart from having concise and beautiful animation, really get to the core idea of explaining the subject. Keep going, you are doing an amazing job at neuroscience divulgation

Somehow it's all drastically obvious, since you're explaining the simplest way to learn, yet simultaneously it's very fascinating to learn these basic methods.

I've been teaching this subject matter for three years, and you've done a great job of simplifying the subject.

AI/HPC researcher here. I just love how you integrate neuroscience, math, physics and computing in your stubs ❤ Greetings from Brazil

Excellent editing skills, second only to your depth and exactitude. I am inspired to delve deeper into these topics and find the commonality between this and contemporary QM

Thank you so much for all the effort to make these videos, I found your channel yesterday and is amazing, it's one of the best I've seen on YouTube, especially this video. I loved the way you explain all these abstract mathematical concepts in such a clear way. Greetings from Chile!

thank you for taking your viewer's suggestions into account! I especially appreciated the explanation of factorization

Artem, mate, your videos are just amazing. You are the future of education. Keep up the stunning work!

Yet another outstanding video. Thank you for making such high quality content. I look forward to the second part discussing the Tolman Eichenbaum Machine. It is especially interesting, considering they were able to replicate the results by modifying a transformer, the backbone architecture to popular LLMs such as ChatGPT. Again thanks for providing the highest quality computational neuroscience content on youtube

This content is so good I draw mind maps and summarise on a massive whiteboard while I listen to you. It’s great content, thank you.

This is really interesting when applying it to sport. It may explain "home ground advantage", and certain training strategies that could aid with spatial awareness despite sporting locations.

This video is amazingly clean and beautifully put together/choerent. I am appalled this video (and the rest of your videos) don't have millions of views (yet). Even if I have barely any hope of understanding most of what was said in this video, you came as close as possible to making me I think I do. And either way, if this entire video was in a completely foreign language with no subtitles, I would still have watched the whole thing for the visuals alone. Fantastic

Fascinating video! Next year I am going to college to study cognitive science. So as a request for future videos, I would appreciate it if you could further explore the interdisciplinary nature of neuroscience because it would nicely complement what I learn from my studies. Thanks

Hi Artem! Great video on a challenging topic. Congratulations! I like that you represented the different types of cells in the entorhinal cortex-hippocampus system as a way of a brain to label any context, whether it is qualitative relations, organization of a space or decision making. I am not a specialist in electrophysiology, but recall there were also papers on “time cells” encoding events in time. I recall my feeling from reading them – it was clear to me that it is more than simply way to encode separately different modalities in the environment but rather a way to organize it utilizing different properties. Since then, I did not follow this line of studies. And it is cool that you put the current understanding of this area together in this video. I have a critique though. To me, your example of cooking lasagna at home vs at a friend’s kitchen is somewhat confusing as an illustration of brain’s ability to generalize (adopt). The fact is that if we want to illustrate the generalization of a cooking skill, then we must show that a person can cook lasagna from different ingredients. Whereas if we want to illustrate the generalization of a skill to navigate in a different space of a friend’s kitchen (with a complex mix of similar and dissimilar properties) then (as in your example) we may show that a person can recognize and discriminate tables, stoves and refrigerators. In your example, everything is a little bit mixed together. Anyway, consider this as a minor revision! Overall, a solid and inspiring video! Cheers!

The production quality on this video is incredible. Amazing work

Fascinating and visually stunning video, as always. Thank you Artem!