# Spatiotemporal Computing **Domain:** Computational Neuroscience / Dynamical Systems **Doc Type:** Research-Frontier Concept Node **Maturity:** Proposed theoretical architecture **Related:** [[Analog Computation]], [[Traveling Waves]], [[Effective Connectivity]], [[Nonlinear Dynamics]] --- ## Definition **Spatiotemporal computing** is the proposed organization of computation through patterns that vary across both space and time. In the neural-wave theory developed by Earl K. Miller, Scott L. Brincat, and Jefferson E. Roy, traveling waves regulate where and when neuronal populations participate, while wave interference may perform parallel analog operations. ## Evidence Boundary The constituent observations—traveling oscillations, frequency-specific interactions, spatial patterning, and field effects on neural activity—have experimental support. Their unification as an analog computing regime is a theory whose direct signatures remain to be demonstrated. ## Corpus Context [[articles/Analog Cognition and the Architecture of Continuity|Analog Cognition and the Architecture of Continuity]] uses this architecture to distinguish persistent synaptic structure from rapidly assembled functional state and to sharpen the dynamical requirements of [[Consciousness Continuity Infrastructure]]. ## Sources / Provenance - Earl K. Miller, Scott L. Brincat, and Jefferson E. Roy, [Analog Cognition and Consciousness](https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0711-26.2026), _The Journal of Neuroscience_ (2026)