October 2016 PMID 27065813

Why Neurons Have Thousands of Synapses, a Theory of Sequence Memory in Neocortex.

Jeff Hawkins, Subutai Ahmad

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Overall, the group shows strong support and curiosity about the article, citing specific concepts like dendritic nonlinearities and sequence memory, and referencing related studies and models, which indicates a high level of thoughtful engagement and recognition of its potential to reshape understanding of neural processing.

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Abstract in brief

  • Pyramidal neurons in the neocortex have thousands of synapses on different parts of their dendrites, and it's still unclear how they integrate all these inputs to process information.
  • The study suggests that dendrites use their nonlinear properties to recognize many patterns simultaneously, with some inputs leading to the neuron firing and others predicting future activity without firing.
  • A proposed network model based on these neuronal properties can learn and predict sequences, functioning robustly with sparse activity and enabling complex, noise-resistant processing.]

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Subutai Ahmad
@SubutaiAhmad · X

@mattlark @SimsYStuart @jaaanaru @TrendsCognSci Dendrites and dendritic integration are key to the Thousand Brains Theory in multiple ways. Matthews’ research (and the dendrite community in general) has been an inspiration to us throughout. See this paper as a starting point: https://t.co/0KxtkGE0ij

Aug 25, 2020 · 17 likes · 4 shares · 2,901 followers View post →
Cerebrotes
@Cerebrotes · X

¿Cómo funciona el cerebro? - Neurociencia para todos los públicos

Feb 4, 2021 · 16 likes · 4 shares · 8,113 followers View post →
Cerebrotes
@Cerebrotes · X

Hoy, #DiaMundialDelCerebro, aprovecho para compartir este vídeo resumen de cómo funciona el cerebro a grandes rasgos

Jul 22, 2021 · 11 likes · 7 shares · 8,113 followers View post →
Subutai Ahmad
@SubutaiAhmad · X

This paper looks great! We'll do a journal club on it soon. In the meantime, their results sound very consistent with the predictions from our sparse modeling work: https://t.co/ATAdmulIW9 https://t.co/0KxtkGE0ij https://t.co/pLpH7DIMjM https://t.co/VASrroY5Pm

Oct 27, 2020 · 11 likes · 2,901 followers View post →
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Jon Blay
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RT @tildahl: @Neuro_Physics I only have access to the abstract, but sort of sounds like lines up with the theory in this paper by Jeff Hawk…

Dec 29, 2024 · 1 share · 905 followers View post →
Yu Kanazawa
@knzw783 · X

Hawkins, J., & Ahmad, S. (2016). Why neurons have thousands of synapses, a theory of sequence memory in neocortex. Frontiers in Neural Circuits, 10, 23. https://t.co/Lt03ewRNMG

Jun 25, 2024 · 1,866 followers View post →
ENcenatur
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Why Neurons Have Thousands of Synapses, a Theory of Sequence Memory in Neocortex https://t.co/9klhkuoyuV

May 30, 2024 · 30 followers View post →
Manpreet Singh
@ms_ghotratweet · X

An insightful paper by @Numenta discusses how dendrites with multiple synapses contribute to predictive ‘warming up’ in neurons. Only a few neurons are ultimately activated for pattern recognition. Could this behavior, if applied to neural networks

Dec 19, 2023 · 403 followers View post →
luca Leli.
@adamoprogresso · X

RT @adamoprogresso: Perché i neuroni hanno migliaia di sinapsi, una teoria della memoria sequenziale nella neocorteccia - PubMed https://t.…

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luca Leli.
@adamoprogresso · X

Perché i neuroni hanno migliaia di sinapsi, una teoria della memoria sequenziale nella neocorteccia - PubMed https://t.co/4jvm8UIBSs

Sep 10, 2023 · 1 like · 1 share · 3,322 followers View post →
Apcapelli ✳
@Apcapelli · X

Intentando ayudar a mi hija de 1º de Bto he descubierto a Clara García de @Cerebrotes ¿Cómo funciona el cerebro? – Neurociencia para todos los públicos. https://t.co/BbWMTMiJg7 a través de @YouTube ES una genia y una excelente divulgadora

Mar 5, 2023 · 2 likes · 681 followers View post →
Yassine Cherkaoui
@yassine_cherk10 · X

الجنة في رحم الأمهات https://t.co/uYVZJI5oGL via @YouTube

Dec 26, 2022 · 3 likes · 79 followers View post →
Yassine Cherkaoui
@yassine_cherk10 · X

الجنة في رحم الأمهات https://t.co/uYVZJI5oGL via @YouTube #علوم #تبسيط

Dec 26, 2022 · 3 likes · 79 followers View post →
julio mejia
@juliomejiap · X

RT @juliomejiap: ¿Cómo funciona el cerebro? – Neurociencia para todos los públicos. https://t.co/IHO8V2nACo a través de @YouTube

Dec 22, 2022 · 1 share · 1,616 followers View post →
julio mejia
@juliomejiap · X

¿Cómo funciona el cerebro? – Neurociencia para todos los públicos. https://t.co/IHO8V2nACo a través de @YouTube

Nov 9, 2022 · 1 share · 1,616 followers View post →
julio mejia
@juliomejiap · X

¿Cómo funciona el cerebro? – Neurociencia para todos los públicos. https://t.co/IHO8V2FJQw a través de @YouTube

Nov 3, 2022 · 1,616 followers View post →
Chomba Bupe
@ChombaBupe · X

@strangetruther @NickRMorgan Numenta did a pretty good analysis of why neurons have a lot thousands of synapses using combinatorics. Sparsity increases capacity + noise tolerance https://t.co/G1fvzm6uFL

Aug 28, 2022 · 1 like · 11,665 followers View post →
Luca Dellanna
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Jun 2, 2022 · 25,375 followers View post →
noplasticshower
@noplasticshower · X

RT @cigitalgem: #MLsec BIML Bibliography Why Neurons Have Thousands of Synapses, A Theory of Sequence Memory in Neocortex https://t.co/r…

May 19, 2022 · 1 share · 858 followers View post →
Gary McGraw
@cigitalgem · X

#MLsec BIML Bibliography Why Neurons Have Thousands of Synapses, A Theory of Sequence Memory in Neocortex https://t.co/ryZuPRgXbP Cells that fire together, wire together. Hebb rule as instantiated in dendrites. A more realistic neuron model. https://t.co/Zk6s5K47dm

May 19, 2022 · 2 likes · 1 share · 4,990 followers View post →
Dr Cyril R Pernet
@CyrilRPernet · X

@aina_puce mmh have you been looking over my shoulder? i was actually checking basic neurophysio related to https://t.co/aYxeeVivA8 (the dendritic spiking is needed to 'prime' neurons in a microcolumn allowing prediction)

Apr 26, 2022 · 4,197 followers View post →
julio mejia
@juliomejiap · X

¿Cómo funciona el cerebro? – Neurociencia para todos los públicos. https://t.co/IHO8V2Fc0Y a través de @YouTube

Apr 24, 2022 · 1,616 followers View post →
Gideon
@gidsy · X

@blake_camp_1 Brilliant, thanks for the figure. This is different, but reminds me of @Numenta's work on neurons with multiple dendrites, e.g. https://t.co/T9izSnPJPV

Jan 30, 2022 · 1 like · 328 followers View post →
Doge Park
@2021DogePark · X

“Why Neurons Have Thousands of Synapses, a Theory of Sequence Memory in the Neocortex.”

Jan 14, 2022 · 197 followers View post →
memo akten
@memoakten · X

I do wonder if our naïve abstraction from biochemistry to digital, removes more than we realize. eg from @Numenta https://t.co/QsSl1dKYHL and guitarists know replacing a tube w transistor kills the sound :) A theme also explored in Kelly Heaton's work https://t.co/WYxy4PkyXP

Dec 18, 2021 · 3 likes · 29,156 followers View post →
Meta Metta
@onMetaMetta · X

RT @nburn42: @TonyZador It's because >90% of synapses are predictive signals and are not intended to excite the cell. They create a calcium…

Dec 11, 2021 · 1 share · 350 followers View post →
Meta Metta
@onMetaMetta · X

@TonyZador It's because >90% of synapses are predictive signals and are not intended to excite the cell. They create a calcium spike that travels up the dendrite to the soma and which primes the neuron to fire faster than it's neighbors. https://t.co/JdnCJYgben

Dec 11, 2021 · 1 like · 1 share · 350 followers View post →
Subutai Ahmad
@SubutaiAhmad · X

Link to our original paper: https://t.co/0KxtkGE0ij And a followup in Neural Computation: https://t.co/jRZmpTSA6D

Nov 12, 2021 · 2 likes · 2,901 followers View post →
Christian Torres
@C_TorresFrias · X

RT @Cerebrotes: Hoy, #DiaMundialDelCerebro, aprovecho para compartir este vídeo resumen de cómo funciona el cerebro a grandes rasgos

Jul 23, 2021 · 7 shares · 301 followers View post →
Mentes Covalentes
@covalmentes · X

RT @Cerebrotes: Hoy, #DiaMundialDelCerebro, aprovecho para compartir este vídeo resumen de cómo funciona el cerebro a grandes rasgos

Jul 23, 2021 · 7 shares · 1,192 followers View post →
Mar Astorga Santos
@Mar_Astorga · X

RT @Cerebrotes: Hoy, #DiaMundialDelCerebro, aprovecho para compartir este vídeo resumen de cómo funciona el cerebro a grandes rasgos

Jul 23, 2021 · 7 shares · 330 followers View post →
José María
@Jose_Maria_100 · X

RT @Cerebrotes: Hoy, #DiaMundialDelCerebro, aprovecho para compartir este vídeo resumen de cómo funciona el cerebro a grandes rasgos

Jul 22, 2021 · 7 shares · 117 followers View post →
Cerebrotes
@Cerebrotes · X

RT @Cerebrotes: Hoy, #DiaMundialDelCerebro, aprovecho para compartir este vídeo resumen de cómo funciona el cerebro a grandes rasgos

Jul 22, 2021 · 7 shares · 8,113 followers View post →
jmpelegrin
@jm_pelegrin · X

RT @Cerebrotes: Hoy, #DiaMundialDelCerebro, aprovecho para compartir este vídeo resumen de cómo funciona el cerebro a grandes rasgos

Jul 22, 2021 · 7 shares · 40 followers View post →
Cerebrotes
@Cerebrotes · X

Hoy, #DiaMundialDelCerebro, aprovecho para compartir este vídeo resumen de cómo funciona el cerebro a grandes rasgos

Jul 22, 2021 · 11 likes · 7 shares · 8,113 followers View post →
Metsuke (めつけ)
@metsuke · X

Visto en YT: ¿Cómo funciona el cerebro? – Neurociencia para todos los públicos. https://t.co/mEN8Eh5NWh ( ¿Cómo funciona el cerebro? – Neurociencia para todos los públicos. En este vídeo explico de manera sencilla algunos de los principios básicos sobre cómo funciona nuestro ce…

May 28, 2021 · 701 followers View post →
Chispita
@Lyn_O_o · X

RT @Cerebrotes:

Apr 29, 2021 · 4 shares · 109 followers View post →
MycelFi
@MycelFi · X

tämä paperi! https://t.co/Y1fxN5HRct Why Neurons Have Thousands of Synapses, A Theory of Sequence Memory in Neocortex, Jeff Hawkins*, Subutai Ahmad, Numenta, Inc,

Mar 21, 2021 · 3,518 followers View post →
Chomba Bupe
@ChombaBupe · X

The simple neuron model vs the more realistic model: https://t.co/G1fvzm6uFL https://t.co/LFdsZq12FA

Feb 18, 2021 · 11,665 followers View post →
Kai Sternad
@kaisternad · X

Why Neurons Have Thousands of Synapses, a Theory of Sequence Memory in Neocortex https://t.co/ahxuHcdexB

Feb 6, 2021 · 94 followers View post →
José María
@Jose_Maria_100 · X

¿Cómo funciona el cerebro? – Neurociencia para todos los públicos. https://t.co/Nc5czGYc6T a través de @YouTube

Feb 6, 2021 · 1 like · 117 followers View post →
Biocanter
@canter_viso · X

RT @Cerebrotes:

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Cerebrotes
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Beto Fernandez
@bto_fdz · X

RT @Cerebrotes: ¿Cómo funciona el cerebro? - Neurociencia para todos los públicos

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Ammu Neuroscience
@ammuneuroscien2 · X

RT @Cerebrotes: ¿Cómo funciona el cerebro? - Neurociencia para todos los públicos

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Claudio Carpenter.
@TODASLASCARNES · X

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Álvaro Jose
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RT @Cerebrotes: ¿Cómo funciona el cerebro? - Neurociencia para todos los públicos

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Cerebrotes
@Cerebrotes · X

¿Cómo funciona el cerebro? - Neurociencia para todos los públicos

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Cerebrotes
@Cerebrotes · X

RT @Cerebrotes:

Feb 3, 2021 · 4 shares · 8,113 followers View post →
Mentes Covalentes
@covalmentes · X

RT @Cerebrotes:

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Cerebrotes
@Cerebrotes · X

Feb 3, 2021 · 6 likes · 4 shares · 8,113 followers View post →
Tristan Slominski
@tristanls · X

@autoletics The predictive mechanisms I'm familiar with are the spatial pooler and sequence memory from Numenta's research into the neocortex. Not sure if that's relevant to your inquiry. https://t.co/ADgBnVljUQ

Jan 27, 2021 · 728 followers View post →
Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ
@o_guest · X

RT @MikeLwrnc: @o_guest I really like the work the @Numenta crew are doing, including: https://t.co/0HtYq2OU1V

Jan 18, 2021 · 1 share · 11,241 followers View post →
Mike Lawrence
@MikeLwrnc · X

@o_guest I really like the work the @Numenta crew are doing, including: https://t.co/0HtYq2OU1V

Jan 17, 2021 · 2 likes · 1 share · 237 followers View post →
Adam Safron
@adamsafron · X

3/Predictive processing models from @Numenta involve more complex units; e.g. neurons capable of switching into an active/ready (laterally inhibiting) state if they receive (sparse) coincident inputs to apical portions of their dendritic arbors. https://t.co/Fc5uH0aMyM

Jan 2, 2021 · 2 likes · 2,309 followers View post →
Subutai Ahmad
@SubutaiAhmad · X

This paper looks great! We'll do a journal club on it soon. In the meantime, their results sound very consistent with the predictions from our sparse modeling work: https://t.co/ATAdmulIW9 https://t.co/0KxtkGE0ij https://t.co/pLpH7DIMjM https://t.co/VASrroY5Pm

Oct 27, 2020 · 11 likes · 2,901 followers View post →
Lord Alveric
@Lord_Alveric · X

RT @SubutaiAhmad: @mattlark @SimsYStuart @jaaanaru @TrendsCognSci Dendrites and dendritic integration are key to the Thousand Brains Theory…

Sep 7, 2020 · 4 shares · 217 followers View post →
Aleksandar Kamburov
@akamburov · X

RT @SubutaiAhmad: @mattlark @SimsYStuart @jaaanaru @TrendsCognSci Dendrites and dendritic integration are key to the Thousand Brains Theory…

Aug 28, 2020 · 4 shares · 541 followers View post →
Numenta
@Numenta · X

RT @SubutaiAhmad: @mattlark @SimsYStuart @jaaanaru @TrendsCognSci Dendrites and dendritic integration are key to the Thousand Brains Theory…

Aug 27, 2020 · 4 shares · 13,451 followers View post →
realFelixRobles
@realFelixRobles · X

RT @SubutaiAhmad: @mattlark @SimsYStuart @jaaanaru @TrendsCognSci Dendrites and dendritic integration are key to the Thousand Brains Theory…

Aug 25, 2020 · 4 shares · 243 followers View post →
Subutai Ahmad
@SubutaiAhmad · X

@mattlark @SimsYStuart @jaaanaru @TrendsCognSci Dendrites and dendritic integration are key to the Thousand Brains Theory in multiple ways. Matthews’ research (and the dendrite community in general) has been an inspiration to us throughout. See this paper as a starting point: https://t.co/0KxtkGE0ij

Aug 25, 2020 · 17 likes · 4 shares · 2,901 followers View post →
Jonathan A. Michaels
@JonAMichaels · X

@TMoldwin @DavidBeniaguev Cool paper! Any reason you didn’t cite Hawkins & Ahmad? https://t.co/lEQjA8bARJ Seems very related. @SubutaiAhmad

Apr 24, 2020 · 1 like · 5,097 followers View post →
Örjan
@oluies · X

RT @oluies: Why neurons have thousands of synapses, a theory of sequence memory in neocortex https://t.co/mtTLgey5RY https://t.co/874YKxF4Wa

Apr 4, 2020 · 1 share · 973 followers View post →
johnson
@Johnson37975725 · X

ちゃんと読んでないので現状何も言えないが,2016年にNumentaから出た論文のアイディアが,今回で陽に発見された気がする.部位も違うが,どのくらい類似性があるのだろう https://t.co/Nm6Co88dND https://t.co/EqtQdR1Hq3

Feb 13, 2020 · 213 followers View post →
rhyolight
@rhyolight · X

@tangled_zans @anderssandberg @ESYudkowsky @cortical_io Our core paper on sequence learning: https://t.co/FgUJ07K77l

Jan 1, 2020 · 2 likes · 2,582 followers View post →
rhyolight
@rhyolight · X

@tdietterich @GaryMarcus @VidaVakil @Numenta Start here, this underpins everything we do at @Numenta: https://t.co/FgUJ07K77l

Dec 30, 2019 · 2,582 followers View post →
createAGI
@createai_org · X

Experimentally observed phenomenon : overall cell activity becomes sparser during a continuous predictable sensory stream ; ie., unanticipated inputs will result in higher cell activity https://t.co/tPGNsitZNn

Sep 9, 2019 · 20 followers View post →