spiking neural network

Terms from Artificial Intelligence: humans at the heart of algorithms

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A spiking neural network emulates the way that real neurones in the brain communicate through discrete spikes rather than weighted links as is most common in artificial neural networks. In some ways the two behave similarly and a weighted impulse is rougly equivalent to a fast firing spike link. However, there are differences, for example the potential for disambiguation.

Used in Chap. 6: page 92; Chap. 22: page 370