LLM-assisted neuron simulations reportedly revisit earlier path-integration hypotheses

The author of a two-day effort to push automated scientific discovery with LLMs says a neuroscientist pointed them to earlier literature identifying hΔ neurons as likely candidates for path integration, plus dissertations reporting experiments on those neurons. The author now describes the work as simulations of earlier hypotheses, while believing the ideas were simulated independently through unbiased screens of neural wiring. They say embargoed abstracts still make it difficult to assess whether path integration occurs through synaptic updates, persistent activity or both.