Revolutionizing Memory with Spatial Computing.

Researchers at MIT and Karolinksa Institute and KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm have discovered that the brain creates distinct spaces in the cortex for each general rule of working memory and controls those patches with brain rhythms, a concept the authors call “Spatial Computing.” This system explains how the brain can easily sustain a consistent understanding of a process even when the specific contents keep changing. The researchers realized that all these questions could be resolved by the Spatial Computing theory. Individual neurons representing information items can be scattered widely around the cortex, but the rule that’s applied to them is based on the patch of the network they are in.