2000, Self-organized criticality models of neural development
David Rail, Braun Henry, Simon Watt · 2000
A simple evolutionary model is introduced for neural development along the lines of the Bak-Sneppen model for biological evolution of an ecology. The model represents a set of neurons and their connections together with associated synaptic weights. Evolution of the system is studied for different model fitness functions of the synaptic weights. The model systems exhibit Darwinian evolution of the synaptic weight space towards maturation.