Non-Euclidean Geometries: The discovery of grid cells and cognitive maps challenges the dominance of Euclidean geometry in understanding spatial cognition. Place cells are found in the hippocampus and respond to specific locations in the environment, while grid cells in the entorhinal cortex form grid-like patterns representing the overall layout of space. Grid and Place Cells: Researchers have discovered specific patterns of neuron firing in the brains of rats, mice, bats, and humans, known as place cells and grid cells. Here’s what ChatGPT says are three takeaways from this post. Let me know what you think and what your thoughts are on using ChatGPT for this kind of thing. Especially when the sun is shining and it’s 72 degrees outside. Some facts are often way off and downright fictional at times, but it is good at taking a jumble of ideas, lists of points, or disparate topics and putting them into cohesive starting points. I find ChatGPT a valuable writing companion. When I was unsure or dubious of its confidence, I’d turn to Google Scholar and Wikipedia for further reference or content to be rewritten more evidentially. When I’d get stuck on a concept or blending of concepts, I’d ask ChatGPT to blend them for me. I pasted that into Word and began editing in my own voice and adding bits of my own thoughts. After a few iterations of ‘expand on this’, ‘merge these…’ and ‘shrink this to three sentences’ I had all the working components needed to form an essay roughly 1000 words long. I then took some papers referenced in the talk, grabbed their abstracts, and pasted those in ChatGPT. I took my notes from a talk I saw at the AAG conference in March, and you know what comes next…I pasted it in ChatGPT. So, I turned to a writing companion this week to help. I’ll admit it, the early summer weather here in Seattle has been a distraction.

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