Title :
Comments on "Silicon models of lateral inhibition" [with reply]
Author :
Nabet, Bahram ; Pinter, R.B. ; Darling, Robert B. ; Wolpert, S. ; Micheli-Tzanakou, E.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Drexel Univ., Philadelphia, PA, USA
Abstract :
The commenters refer to the above mentioned paper by Wolpert and Micheli-Tzanakou (ibid. p.955-61, 1993), and point out the oversight of previous activity in circuit design. In their opinion the paper in question does not seem to represent a novel approach either in circuitry or computationally. In reply, the authors acknowledge their oversight of the conference papers cited by the commenters, but point out that they never suggested that a simple shunting lateral inhibitory (SLI) pair was a novel circuit, and the overall objective of their effort was simply to carry analysis of SLI to a higher dimension.<>
Keywords :
CMOS integrated circuits; VLSI; neural chips; circuitry; lateral inhibition; mutually inhibitory nodes; neural networks; silicon models; Biological neural networks; Biomedical engineering; Circuit simulation; Circuit stability; Circuit testing; Delay; Neurons; Sensor arrays; Silicon; Stability analysis;
Journal_Title :
Neural Networks, IEEE Transactions on
