ABSTRACT
A key technique used in training nets in this way concerns establishing the most responsive node to any pattern. One way of doing this is simply to search the net for the largest activity. This, however, displaces the responsibility for this process onto some kind of supervisory mechanism that is not an integral part of the net. An alternative is to supply extra resources to the network that allow this search to take place within the net itself. This distinction will become clearer later but we introduce it here to motivate the next section, which deals with a search mechanism intrinsic to the network.
