# Questions on how displacement cells learn movements

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**Created:** [February 14, 2019, 5:52pm UTC](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/questions-on-how-displacement-cells-learn-movements/5439 "2019-02-14T17:52:46Z")\
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This is relevant now because some folks are trying to implement displacements for [2D Object Recognition Project](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/2d-object-recognition-project/5465).

@nick I have a feeling I did not answer your questions probably because I did not understand them.

> [@nick](#):
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> Can there be displacement cells representing 2,3,n steps?

Maybe you can restate this question? Do you mean steps in time or steps through the grid?

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