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Conditioning Circuits

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

A. S. Householder*
Affiliation:
The University of Chicago

Abstract

A circuit of mutually exciting neurones capable of approaching and maintaining a state of permanent excitation has been described by Rashevsky as a possible mechanism for the production of conditioned reflexes. The mode of approach of such a circuit to the steady state is examined in some detail under slightly more general assumptions, and an estimate is made of the order of magnitude of the time required to reach this state.

Type
Original Paper
Copyright
Copyright © 1938 The Psychometric Society

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