The TAM-WG Model of Rodent Navigation: Tutorial
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Understanding the model ...

The TAM-WG model, as its name suggests, reflects the integration of two other models, the Taxon-Affordances Model (TAM) and the World Graph (WG) model. The WG model by itself is composed of the allocentric motivational schema, the place cell model, and the world graph layer. TAM, besides implementing affordances for movement, is composed of the egocentric motivational schema. The egocentric and the allocentric motivational schemas are responsible for associating expectations of future reinforcement with spatial information in TAM and the WG model, which allows the animal to execute goal-oriented behaviors.

TAM-WG (Version 1.2) implements many different behavioral and electrophysiological experiments, which were originally described in:

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University of Southern California Brain Simulation Lab
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Author: Alex Guazzelli <aguazzel@rana.usc.edu>