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The paper demonstrates that it is possible to construct memory models where the information inserted is stored in disseminated form, using sequential coding, the changes in the units forming the models being determined by their geometrical connections and by the incoming stream of information. The models are shown to have large storage capacity and their efficiency can be made insensitive to loss of or damage to a large fraction of their units.
The satisfactory verification by computer simulation of the analysis and results described in the present paper will be the subject of a future paper.
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Ovenden, M.W., Roy, A.E. Disseminated storage of information with sequential coding. Bltn Mathcal Biology 35, 663–688 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02458369
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02458369