Alexander Woodward

Neural coordination can be enhanced by occasional interruption of normal firing patterns: a self-optimizing spiking neural network model.

Neural Networks February 2015 Alexander Woodward, Tom Froese, Takashi Ikegami

The state space of a conventional Hopfield network typically exhibits many different attractors of which only a small subset satisfies constraints between neurons in a globally optimal fashion. It has recently been demonstrated that combining Hebbian learning with occasional alterations of normal neural states avoids this problem by means of self-organized enlargement of the best basins of...