Title :
Associative memory of weakly connected oscillators
Author :
Hoppensteadt, Frank C. ; Izhikevich, Eugene M.
Author_Institution :
Center for Syst. Sci. & Eng., Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ, USA
Abstract :
It is a well-known fact that oscillatory networks can operate as Hopfield-like neural networks, the only difference being that their attractors are limit cycles: one for each memorized pattern. The neuron activities are synchronized on the limit cycles, and neurons oscillate with fixed phase differences (time delays). We prove that this property is a natural attribute of general weakly connected neural networks, and it is relatively independent of the equations that describe the network activity. In particular, we prove an analogue of the Cohen-Grossberg convergence theorem for oscillatory neural networks
Keywords :
Hebbian learning; Hopfield neural nets; content-addressable storage; convergence; limit cycles; oscillations; Cohen-Grossberg convergence theorem; Hopfield-like neural networks; associative memory; limit cycles; neuron activities; oscillatory neural networks; weakly connected oscillators; Associative memory; Bifurcation; Biological information theory; Biological neural networks; Frequency; Hopfield neural networks; Limit-cycles; Neural networks; Neurons; Oscillators;
Conference_Titel :
Neural Networks,1997., International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Houston, TX
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4122-8
DOI :
10.1109/ICNN.1997.616190