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ERIC Number: EJ897965
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2010-Sep
Pages: 4
Abstractor: ERIC
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ISSN: ISSN-1043-4046
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Modeling a Neural Network as a Teaching Tool for the Learning of the Structure-Function Relationship
Salinas, Dino G.; Acevedo, Cristian; Gomez, Christian R.
Advances in Physiology Education, v34 n3 p158-161 Sep 2010
The authors describe an activity they have created in which students can visualize a theoretical neural network whose states evolve according to a well-known simple law. This activity provided an uncomplicated approach to a paradigm commonly represented through complex mathematical formulation. From their observations, students learned many basic principles and concepts of the dynamic systems, all necessary to understand the structure-dynamic relationship. This last relation is one of the main paradigms in the integrated curriculum of many health sciences professionals. In the activity, the authors proposed to students a theoretical "human" neural network, with each student representing a neuron. In this article, they describe some essential aspects used to obtain the dynamics of the neural network. (Contains 1 table and 2 figures.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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