Oscillatory Neurocomputers with Dynamic Connectivity
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چکیده
Our study of thalamo-cortical systems suggests a new architecture for a neurocomputer that consists of oscillators having different frequencies and that are connected weakly via a common medium forced by an external input. Even though such oscillators are all interconnected homogeneously, the external input imposes a dynamic connectivity. We use Kuramoto’s model to illustrate the idea and to prove that such a neurocomputer has oscillatory associative properties. Then we discuss a general case. The advantage of such a neurocomputer is that it can be built using voltage controlled oscillators, optical oscillators, lasers, microelectromechanical systems, Josephson junctions, macromolecules, or oscillators of other kinds. (Provisional patent 60y108,353) [S0031-9007(99)08813-4]
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