Yes that’s how they explain it with one small difference. A column bursts when it gets activated without any predictive cells in it. So the column doesn’t always start in a bursting state when it gets activated. The predictive cell of the active column is closer to firing than the rest, so it fires earlier than the rest of the cells. This timing difference results in the predicted active cell inhibiting the rest and not allowing them to fire, so the column never bursts in this case. This mechanism is attributed to the functionality of fast spiking basket cells in neuroscience if I am not mistaken.
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