Axonal delay dispersion decides whether a neuron detects an event or a sequence, and predicts cortical column diameter

arXiv:2609.04195 · q-bio.NC, cs.NE · Submitted 2026-09-03 · Read on arXiv

q-bio.NC, cs.NE

Submitted: 2026-09-03

Updated: 2026-09-21

Code: https://github.com/bicheng2028/Transformer_attention_neuron_dendrites

Terminology

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• Trace — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
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• Generative AI — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Pruning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Regularization — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Transformer Architecture — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Relating transformers to models and neural representations of the hippocampal formation
• Conduction velocity of intracortical axons in monkey primary visual cortex grows with distance: implications for computation

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