CORTEX / CUBE LAB

Mouse neuron models. A new motor task.

Initializing experiment
EXPERIMENT 002

Small mind. Six sides.

Inside the experiment

01 The motor task

MOUSE × RUBIK’S CUBE
Building the experiment…
SPIKE-DRIVEN MOVEMENT
drag to orbit / Ctrl / ⌘ + scroll to zoom
CURRENT MOVE—Singmaster notation
MOVES MADE
0
REMAINING
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MATCHED / 54
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02 Inside the circuit

LIVE ACTIVITY
4096 CELL INSTANCES0%
excitationinhibitionspike
schematic layout
NEURONS
4,096
SYNAPSES
51.2k
MEAN RATE
0.0Hz
SIM. TIME
0.0s

Membrane potential

mV

Spike raster

sampled cells · 3 s
TRY A FACE TURN
Starting cube planner…
03 What’s actually happening here?
THE SCIENCE

Published cells.
A designed circuit.

Six published Allen Institute GLIF3 mouse neuron models are repeated as 4,096 simulated cell instances. Each cell’s membrane voltage and after-spike currents are numerically integrated using the fitted parameters.

The connections are engineered for this experiment. The point cloud is a schematic layout, not a reconstruction of a complete mouse brain. Its brightness follows calculated spikes.

THE TASK

A planner chooses.
The circuit moves.

A classical cube solver chooses a sequence of legal turns. That plan becomes neural input. The spiking motor populations control the execution and timing of the mouse’s movements.

This circuit has not learned to solve a cube. You can test its role directly: silence it during a turn and the movement stops. Restore the circuit and the motor task continues.

Voltage gaps mark the fitted spike-cut interval; GLIF3 does not simulate an action-potential waveform. The raster shows a sample of cells.