Phase transitions, hysteresis and overshoot in developing neural networks

Van Ooyen, A., and Van Pelt, J. (1992). In: Aleksander, I., and Taylor, J., eds. Artificial Neural Networks 2 - ICANN 1992, 2nd International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, Brighton, UK, pp. 907-910. [Full text: PDF]

Abstract

We show that the presence of only two basic neuronal properties—a firing threshold and activity-dependent outgrowth—is sufficient to generate overshoot phenomena in developing neural networks.