Neural mechanism to simulate a scale-invariant future

DOI10.1162/NECO_A_00891zbMATH Open1414.92048arXiv1503.03322OpenAlexW3101539900WikidataQ38821388 ScholiaQ38821388MaRDI QIDQ5380596FDOQ5380596

Authors: Karthik H. Shankar, Inder Singh, Marc W. Howard 

Publication date: 5 June 2019

Published in: Neural Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Predicting future events, and their order, is important for efficient planning. We propose a neural mechanism to non-destructively translate the current state of memory into the future, so as to construct an ordered set of future predictions. This framework applies equally well to translations in time or in one-dimensional position. In a two-layer memory network that encodes the Laplace transform of the external input in real time, translation can be accomplished by modulating the weights between the layers. We propose that within each cycle of hippocampal theta oscillations, the memory state is swept through a range of translations to yield an ordered set of future predictions. We operationalize several neurobiological findings into phenomenological equations constraining translation. Combined with constraints based on physical principles requiring scale-invariance and coherence in translation across memory nodes, the proposition results in Weber-Fechner spacing for the representation of both past (memory) and future (prediction) timelines. The resulting expressions are consistent with findings from phase precession experiments in different regions of the hippocampus and reward systems in the ventral striatum. The model makes several experimental predictions that can be tested with existing technology.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.03322

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zbMATH Keywords

hippocampuspredictionsneural network equationsneural mechanismspatiotemporal memoryventral striatum

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Neural networks for/in biological studies, artificial life and related topics (92B20)

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