Associative Learning, Adaptive Pattern Recognition, And Cooperative-Competitive Decision Making By Neural Networks

This article describes models of associative pattern learning, adaptive pattern recognition, and parallel decision-making by neural networks. It is shown that a small set of real-time non-linear neural equations within a larger set of specialized neural circuits can be used to study a wide variety of such problems. Models of energy minimization, cooperative-competitive decision making, competitive learning, adaptive resonance, interactive activation, and back propagation are discussed and compared.