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The Law of Practice and localist neural network models

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2019

Andrew Heathcote
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, 2308, NSW, Australia{heathcote; sbrown}@psychology.newcastle.edu.aupsychology.newcastle.edu.au/
Scott Brown
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, 2308, NSW, Australia{heathcote; sbrown}@psychology.newcastle.edu.aupsychology.newcastle.edu.au/

Abstract

An extensive survey by Heathcote et al. (in press) found that the Law of Practice is closer to an exponential than a power form. We show that this result is hard to obtain for models using leaky competitive units when practice affects only the input, but that it can be accommodated when practice affects shunting self-excitation.

Type
Brief Report
Copyright
2000 Cambridge University Press

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