Storage of a temporal pattern sequence in a network

Learning of single patterns and a temporal pattern sequence in a network when the coupling coefficients between the network elements change their values according to a definite coupling function is described. In contrast to technical systems (e.g. film, tape) where temporal sequences are often encoded in the storage location, the network stores information only by changing the values of the coupling coefficients. A network of 100 elements was simulated on an UNIVAC 1100/80 computer. Eight single patterns and a sequence of these patterns were offered at the input of the network. After the learning process the network reproduces every stored pattern as an output signal when only parts of it are fed in. The activity, that is the sum of all output signals, is regulated by an external control signal. By setting that control signal to a suitable value the network is able to reproduce the stored pattern sequence starting from any arbitrary pattern. Lowering the external control signal during that process causes the network to hold the last presented pattern until the external control signal is changed again. It is speculated that the coupling function implemented in the simulation may be anaogous to a characteristic describing the chemical process of cooperative binding.

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