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Interdisciplinary Appeal

• For computer scientists and engineers neural networks provide a paradigm for solving problems which is often very successful particularly in domains which are poorly understood or subject to great uncertainty.

• For linguists, cognitive scientists, psychologists and philosophers neural networks provide a metaphor for the way in which cognitive processes such as perception, attention, learning, memory, language, reasoning and thinking occur.

• For neuroscientists the mathematical simplification of the physiological processes allows the analysis of large networks of units and provides insight into how the myriad interactions of neurons result in overt behaviour.