Terminal attractors in neural networks

Neural networks and physical systems with emergent collective computational abilities.

J. J. Hopfield · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1982 · 19.3K citations

Medicine, Computer Systems, Neurobiology +17

Neurons with graded response have collective computational properties like those of two-state neurons.

J. J. Hopfield · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1984 · 7K citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Biology, Neuroscience +15

Absolute stability of global pattern formation and parallel memory storage by competitive neural networks

Michael A. Cohen, Stephen Grossberg · IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics · 1983 · 2.5K citations

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A massively parallel architecture for a self-organizing neural pattern recognition machine

Gail A. Carpenter, Stephen Grossberg · Computer Vision Graphics and Image Processing · 1987 · 2.5K citations

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Systems of Differential Equations that are Competitive or Cooperative II: Convergence Almost Everywhere

Morris W. Hirsch · SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis · 1985 · 543 citations

Natural Sciences, Mathematics, Competitive Dynamics +16