Topic: hidden state

Humans exhibit highly structured patterns of memory recall. For example, when recalling a previously studied sequence of items, two patterns are often observed. First, after recalling any given item, the next recall tends to be an item studied in temporal proximity to the just-recalled item. Second, items tend to be recalled in the same order they were studied. To explain these findings, a prominent computational model called Temporal Context Model (TCM) posits the existence of a slowly-drifting temporal context that mediates encoding and retrieval of item sequences. While this model uses a ha