A location of a missing object is predicted based on past sightings of objects including the missing object, and a new sighting of the objects except for the missing object. For a respective given object in the objects, the past sightings are memorized based on respective distances of respective remaining objects from the respective given object. Distance-based memorization may take place using an agent or associative memory for a respective given object. Then, for a respective given object, except for the missing object, a distance of the missing object from the respective given object is predicted, based on the past sightings that have been memorized and the new sighting, to obtain candidate locations for the missing object. The candidate locations are then disambiguated, to predict the location of the missing object.