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ArticleNeural computation2022

Predicting the Future With a Scale-Invariant Temporal Memory for the Past.

Wei Zhong Goh, Varun Ursekar, Marc W Howard

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Article in Neural computation, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. The anticipation of imminent events is time-scale invariant.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Wei Zhong GohGraduate Program in Neuroscience, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, U.S.A. weizhong@bu.edu.
Varun UrsekarDepartment of Physics, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, U.S.A. varunu@bu.edu.
Marc W HowardDepartment of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Department of Physics, Center for Systems Neuroscience, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, U.S.A. marc777@bu.edu.

Funding

Toward a Theory for Macroscopic Neural Computation Based on Laplace TransformR01EB022864 · NIBIB · BOSTON UNIVERSITY (CHARLES RIVER CAMPUS) · PI HOWARD, MARC W · 2016 to 2018
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NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB022864
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In recent years, it has become clear that the brain maintains a temporal memory of recent events stretching far into the past. This letter presents a neurally inspired algorithm to use a scale-invariant temporal representation of the past to predict a scale-invariant future. The result is a scale-invariant estimate of future events as a function of the time at which they are expected to occur. The algorithm is time-local, with credit assigned to the present event by observing how it affects the prediction of the future. To illustrate the potential utility of this approach, we test the model on simultaneous renewal processes with different timescales. The algorithm scales well on these problems despite the fact that the number of states needed to describe them as a Markov process grows exponentially.

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Time PerceptionAlgorithmsBrainForecastingTime

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PMID35026027
PMCPMC8944185

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