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After a short review of properties of biological place cells, mainly found in the hippocampal region of rodents, and a brief presentation of a biologically inspired navigation architecture relying on these cells, we will show how contextual information could facilitate scale changes to large environments. We thus present a simple model of spatial context allowing to both reduce noise effects on place cells (in biological model) and increase its computational performance.
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Cuperlier, N., Gaussier, P., Quoy, M. (2008). Interest of Spatial Context for a Place Cell Based Navigation Model. In: Asada, M., Hallam, J.C.T., Meyer, JA., Tani, J. (eds) From Animals to Animats 10. SAB 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5040. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69134-1_17
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