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The Interactive Activation and Competition Network Structure

• consists of a number of competitive pools of units
• each unit represents some micro-hypothesis or feature
• units within each competitive pool are mutually exclusive features and are interconnected with negative weights
• between the pools positive weights indicate features or micro-hypotheses which are consistent
• when the network is cycled, units connected by positive weights to active units become more active, while units connected by negative weights to active units are inhibited
• connections are, in general, bidirectional making the network interactive