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From: orsay@mtuxo.UUCP (j.ratsaby)
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Subject: Re: neural networks
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Date: Sun, 11-May-86 05:02:16 EDT
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> 
> Stephen Grossberg has been publishing on neural networks for 20 years.
> He pays special attention to designing adaptive neural networks that
> are self-organizing and mathematically stable.  Some good recent
> references are:
> 
> (Category Learning):----------
>    G.A. Carpenter and S. Grossberg, "A Massively Parallel Architecture for
>      a Self-Organizing Neural Patttern Recognition Machine."  Computer
>      Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing.  In Press.
>    G.A. Carpenter and S. Grossberg, "Neural Dynamics of Category Learning
>      and Recognition: Structural Invariants, Reinforcement, and Evoked
>      Potentials."  In M.L. Commons, S.M. Kosslyn, and R.J. Herrnstein (Eds),
>      Pattern Recognition in Animals, People, and Machines.  Hillsdale, NJ:
>      Erlbaum, 1986.
> (Learning):-------------------
>    S. Grossberg, "How Does a Brain Build a Cognitive Code?"  Psychological
>      Review, 1980 (87), p.1-51.
>    S. Grossberg, Studies of Mind and Brain: Neural Principles of Learning,
>      Perception, Development, Cognition, and Motor Control.  Boston:
>      Reidel Press, 1982.
>    S. Grossberg, "Adaptive Pattern Classification and Universal Recoding:
>      I. Parallel Development and Coding of Neural Feature Detectors."
>      Biological Cybernetics, 1976 (23), p.121-134.
>    S. Grossberg, The Adaptive Brain: I. Learning, Reinforcement, Motivation,
>      and Rhythm.  Amsterdam: North Holland, 1986.
> (Vision):---------------------
>    S. Grossberg, The Adaptive Brain: II. Vision, Speech, Language, and Motor
>      Control.  Amsterdam: North Holland, 1986.
>    S. Grossberg and E. Mingolla, "Neural Dynamics of Perceptual Grouping:
>      Textures, Boundaries, and Emergent Segmentations."  Perception &
>      Psychophysics, 1985 (38), p.141-171.
>    S. Grossberg and E. Mingolla, "Neural Dynamics of Form Perception:
>      Boundary Completion, Illusory Figures, and Neon Color Spreading."
>      Psychological Review, 1985 (92), 173-211.
> (Motor Control):---------------
>    S. Grossberg and M. Kuperstein, Neural Dynamics of Adaptive Sensory-
>      Motor Control: Ballistic Eye Movements.  Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1985.
> 
> 
> If anyone's interested, I can supply more references.

I would like to ask you the following:
From all the books that you read,was there any machine built or simulation
that actually learned by adapting its inner structure ?

if so then what type of information was learned by the machine and in what
quantities ? what action was taken to ask the machine to "remember" and 
retrive information ? and finally , where are we standing today,that is, to
your knowledge, which is the machine that behaves the closest to the
biological brain ?
I would very much apreciate reading some of your thoughts about the above,

      thanks in advance.
      joel Ratsaby
      !mtuxo!orsay