SENSITIVE RESPONSE OF A CHAOTIC WANDERING STATE TO MEMORY FRAGMENT INPUTS IN A CHAOTIC NEURAL NETWORK MODEL
Abstract
Dynamical properties of a chaotic neural network model in a chaotically wandering state are studied with respect to sensitivity to weak input of a memory fragment. In certain parameter regions, the network shows weakly chaotic wandering, which means that the orbits of network dynamics in the state space are localized around several memory patterns. In the other parameter regions, the network shows highly developed chaotic wandering, that is, the orbits become itinerant through ruins of all the memory patterns. In the latter case, once the external input consisting of a memory fragment is applied to the network, the orbit quickly moves to the vicinity of the corresponding memory pattern including the memory fragment within several iteration steps. Thus, chaotic dynamics in the model is effective for instantaneous search among memory patterns.