Temporal association

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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0745.00005.] The paper reviews main approaches to storage, retrieval and recognition of pattern sequences in Hopfield-like neural networks. The review, extended by some new results, is not complete (and authors declare that), yet it gives many important ideas on how the time-dimension can be introduced into models of associative memories. Several dynamics, evoking successively various patterns, and stabilizing the stored ones (for a moment necessary to ``read them) in mixed transition phases are discussed. The mechanisms include asymmetric couplings, time delayed transmissions, clusters of neurons exciting each other and endowed by bundles of intercluster synapses preventing recall of undesirable states, their noise-driven analogies etc. Questions of persistence time spent on processing of each pattern in the sequence, use of fast synaptic modifications for stabilization, selection of the next state in bifurcation points (as in ``complex sequence generation: which letter follows ``e?!), memory spans needed for proper selections, etc. are discussed as well. Most of suggested architectures do not enable a true learning; the last paragraph on Hebbian learning with delays does. Various temporal relations between the patterns of a learned cycle then represent the whole cycle as a dynamic object. The list of references includes 67 papers, last ones from 1990.











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