29 Feb activation

In this blog, activation is used in two contexts:

1) excitatory action potentials as they spread in the brain; and

2) elevated values that are applied to conceptual representations as associations are traversed in an associationist network. In both contexts, activation is capable of heating up entire areas of the network (or cortex) that contain related information.

Keywords: channel
asymptote
action potential
firing
threshold
chaos
neuron
hyperpolarization
depolarization
synapse
neurotransmitter
References: algorithms
brain physiology
fuzzy logic
neural networks
neurons
probability
psychology