Table 1 Nomenclature for spatial metrics

From: Hippocampus supports multi-task reinforcement learning under partial observability

Symbol

Meaning

i

Index over spatial bins

pi

Occupancy probability of bin i

ri

Mean activity (firing rate) in bin i

\(\bar{r}\)

Overall mean activity, \(\bar{r}={\sum }_{i}{p}_{i}\,{r}_{i}\)

\({\tilde{r}}_{i}\)

Local mean activity (3 × 3 uniform filter)

ϵ

Small constant (10−8) to avoid division by 0