[Verse 1]
Start at Book One, Modules one through seven,
Foundations laid like neurons in heaven,
Layer two's stellate cells, star-shaped and bright,
Fan cells in layer three catching the light,
Book Two Parts A to F, we weave 'em in tight,
Each time anatomy hits, cross-reference right,
Perforant path bridges, hippocampus incoming,
Rhinal sulcus marks the border where we're running.
[Chorus]
Suggested path, follow the seams,
Six stages stacked like layered dreams,
Stellate to fan, borders unfold,
Grid by grid, the cortex told,
Book by book, we brick the frame,
Say the modules, learn the name.
[Verse 2]
Modules eight through twelve, cell types take the stage,
Grid cells, border cells, filling out the page,
Speed cells whisper how fast you roam,
Head-direction compass points you home,
Now Book Two Part G, we go deep on the grid,
Hexagonal firing, no corner it hid,
Moser's honeycomb blooming in the medial band,
Metric of space drawn by a neural hand.
[Chorus]
Suggested path, follow the seams,
Six stages stacked like layered dreams,
Stellate to fan, borders unfold,
Grid by grid, the cortex told,
Book by book, we brick the frame,
Say the modules, learn the name.
[Verse 3]
Thirteen to nineteen, function meets the clinic,
Path integration, memory's arithmetic,
Methods section: tetrodes, calcium dye,
fMRI voxels watching neurons fly,
Alzheimer's creeps in, layer two decays first,
Grid signal scrambles, the map goes to worst,
Clinical chapters teach us what we lose,
When entorhinal tissue can't pay its dues.
[Verse 4]
Twenty to twenty-three, swap the source,
Slot in Book Three modules, redirect the course,
Same terrain covered, sharper angle of view,
Comparative chapters give the concept renew,
Then Book Four rides shotgun with your weekly paper,
Primary source study, don't be a paper-skater,
Cross the data, question the claim,
Til Module twenty-four, the capstone reclaims.
[Bridge]
Think of the cortex like a palimpsest,
Old maps erased, new journeys impressed,
Scribbled, rewritten, yet traces remain,
Layer under layer, spatial refrain,
That's the whole curriculum, six stages deep,
Interleaved chapters, no gap, no leap.
[Chorus]
Suggested path, follow the seams,
Six stages stacked like layered dreams,
Stellate to fan, borders unfold,
Grid by grid, the cortex told,
Book by book, we brick the frame,
Say the modules, learn the name.
[Outro]
One through seven, eight to twelve with G,
Thirteen to nineteen, then swap and see,
Book Four weekly, capstone crowns the plan,
Entorhinal path — now recite it, scan.