# Time nuances in reception of inputs

**URL:** <https://discourse.numenta.org/t/time-nuances-in-reception-of-inputs/6570>\
**Category:** Engineering\
**Tags:** neuroscience\
**Created:** [September 10, 2019, 5:03am UTC](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/time-nuances-in-reception-of-inputs/6570 "2019-09-10T05:03:44Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 10, 2019, 5:45pm UTC](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/time-nuances-in-reception-of-inputs/6570/8 "2019-09-10T17:45:37Z")

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I take a cut at it by having 4 phases of voting in hex-grid formation.

> [@HTM Mini-Columns into Hexagonal Grids!](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/htm-mini-columns-into-hexagonal-grids/3567/102):
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> Ok - biological justification for a proposed learning rule: We have a stream of spikes coming at us from senses or a lower level. We try to fire but we are suppressed in the grid competition - no firing spikes to learn, so no learning at all. We are the winner of the grid competition so we are not suppressed- our firing is in response to the input triggers spike timing learning as we freely respond to the input Stimulation from successful grid formation increases the firing rate. We now f…

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