title: Merging race models and adaptive networks: a parallel race network.
abstract: This article presents a generalization of race models involving multiple channels. The major contribution of this article is the implementation of a learning rule that enables networks based on such a parallel race model to learn stimulus-response associations. This model is called a parallel race network. Surprisingly, with a two-layer architecture, a parallel race network learns the XOR problem without the benefit of hidden units. The model described here can be seen as a reduction-of-information system (Haider & Frensch, 1996). An emergent property of this model is seriality: In some conditions, responses are performed with a fixed order, although the system is parallel. The mere existence of this supervised network demonstrates that networks can perform cognitive processes without the weighted sum metric that characterizes strength-based networks.
authors.affiliation: Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada. denis.cousineau@umontreal.ca
authors.forename: Denis
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Cousineau
mesh_terms: D001244:Association; D003071:Cognition; D006801:Humans; D016571:Neural Networks, Computer; D011584:Psychology / Q000379:methods
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