How training and testing histories affect generalization: A test of simple neural networks

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 362, Issue 1479, 2007, Pages 449-454

  Ghirlanda, Stefano ^a,b   Enquist, Magnus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Animal behaviour; Generalization; Neural networks; Range effects

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MEMORY; TESTING METHOD; TRAINING;

ANIMALIA;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; LEARNING; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION;

DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER);

EID: 34247108705     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2006.1972     Document Type: Article

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