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Means of dead reckoning used by animals
Path integration is the method thought to be used by animals for dead reckoning. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Path integrationA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Generative AI in healthcare: an implementation science informed translational path on application, integration and governanceInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Path integrals in quantum mechanics, statistics, polymer physics, and financial marketsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: A Path Independent Integral and the Approximate Analysis of Strain Concentration by Notches and CracksCited 7,371 times
- Go sideways: Head direction cellA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Place cellA closely related topic
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
A Path Independent Integral and the Approximate Analysis of Strain Concentration by Notches and Cracks
Methods for integrating moderation and mediation: A general analytical framework using moderated path analysis.
The Path to European Integration
Path integration in mammals
Principles of Insect Path Integration
Feynman path integration in quantum dynamics
Hippocampal lesions and path integration
Path integration in insects
🆕 Influential since 2022
Generative AI in healthcare: an implementation science informed translational path on application, integration and governance
Multimodal integration of radiology, pathology and genomics for prediction of response to PD-(L)1 blockade in patients with non-small cell lung cancer
Path integration in normal aging and Alzheimer’s disease
Overestimation in angular path integration precedes Alzheimer’s dementia
The integration of palliative care with oncology: the path ahead
📚 Books worth reading
Path integrals in quantum mechanics, statistics, polymer physics, and financial marketsHagen Kleinert · 2003- 📕Path Integrals and Anomalies in Curved SpaceFiorenzo Bastianelli, Peter van Nieuwenhuizen · 2006
Semiclassical physicsMatthias Brack, Rajat Bhaduri · 2003
Classical and Quantum DynamicsWalter Dittrich, Martin Reuter · 1992
Field TheoryAshok Das · 1993- 📕Modern Theory of Random VariationPatrick Muldowney · 2012
Quantum mechanics and path integralsRichard Phillips Feynman · 1965
Path integral methods in quantum field theoryR. J. Rivers · 1987
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- Spatial view cells Spatial view cells are neurons in primates' hippocampus; they respond when a certain part of the environment is in the animal's field of view. They are…
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