Abstract
Biological and Cognitive Frameworks for a Mental Timeline.
Highlights
Historians like to order long-gone events in time
We ask the following question: How does the brain, at a neuromechanistic level, order events on a mental time line? This question is relevant to many neuroscience paradigms such as rate calculation, planning, and decision making, processes that crucially depend on the order of events
Biologically-plausible models face specific challenges when ordering events into “past,” “present” and “future.” as an electro-chemical network, the brain may impose its own chemical, electrical, and circuit level constraints that could provide a sense of order other than time itself
Summary
Keywords: time perception, temporal order, computer simulations, biologically inspired cognitive architectures, brain, neural networks Specialty section: This article was submitted to Perception Science, a section of the journal Frontiers in Neuroscience Citation: Buhusi CV, Oprisan SA and Buhusi M (2018) Biological and Cognitive Frameworks for a Mental Timeline. Animals are molded by natural forces they do not comprehend. To their minds there is no past and no future. . . only the everlasting present of a single generation, its trails in the forest, its hidden pathways in the air and in the sea. . . There is nothing in the Universe more alone than Man. He has entered into the strange world of history. . .
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