Igor Aleksander, Helen Morton, 1993
What is This Book About?
Neuron Models
This is one of a growing list of books which attempt to bridge between two
or more fields interested in how the brain works. Aleksander and Morton
define a simplified model of artificial neural nets and apply that model
to the description of some of the major issues in AI and cognitive science.
Aleksander and Morton have greatly simplified the math used to describe the
neuron model
. This may be acceptable, depending on your
purposes, but it makes it harder to judge the limits of where such models may
or may not be applicable. Specifically, they completely ignore the issues
involved in linear approximations. This is the primary problem which
restricts the use of traditional artificial neural net models in many
applications. These issues are covered in some detail, for example, in
Haykin
's thick volume.
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