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Introduction

• The Hopfield network (Hopfield 1982; Hopfield 1984) demonstrates how the mathematical simplification of a neuron can allow the analysis of the behaviour of large scale neural networks.
• By characterizing mathematically the effect of changes to the activation of individual units on a property of the entire neural architecture called energy, Hopfield (1982) provided the important link between local interactions and global behaviour.