20 Mar firing

The process of a nerve cell or a neural network node becoming activated. When electrical potential is applied to neurons or nodes in an artificial network, until the potential reaches a certain threshold the cell is said to fire, permitting it to further propagate electric potential.
Keywords: neural network
decay
anticholinesterase
activation
neuron
E/I
threshold
action potential
spike
References: algorithms
associationism
chaos
connectionism
fuzzy logic
learning
neural networks
pattern recognition