Balancing robustness against the dangers of multiple attractors in a Hopfield-type model of biological attractors.

Many chronic human diseases are of unclear origin, and persist long beyond any known insult or instigating factor. These diseases may represent a structurally normal biologic network that has become trapped within the basin of an abnormal attractor.We used the Hopfield net as the archetypical exampl...

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Main Authors: Ron C Anafi, Jason H T Bates
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-12-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3008716?pdf=render