| The goal of this research is to investigate to what degree random artificial dendritic nets can differentiate between temporal patterns after modifying the synaptic weights of certain synapses according to a learning algorithm based on the Fourier transform.;A dendritic net is organized into subnets, which provide impulse responses to a function as a basis for Fourier decomposition of the input pattern. Each subnet is randomly generated. According to the simulations, randomly generated subnets with appropriate parameters are good enough to provide the impulse responses for the Fourier decomposition.;The electrical potential pattern across the membrane of the dendrites follows the cable equation. The simulations use a linear synapse model, which is an approximation to biologically realistic synapses. Both excitatory and inhibitory synapses are present in a dendritic net.;The simulations show that random dendritic nets with a small number of subnets can be modified to differentiate between electrical current patterns to a high degree when the membrane conductance of the dendrites is high, and they also show that the random structures are highly fault-tolerant. The performance of a random dendritic net does not change much after adding or deleting subnets.*.;*Originally published in DAI Vol. 61, No. 2. Reprinted here with corrected author name. |
