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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn. 2011 Apr 25;38(6):1490–1511. doi: 10.1037/a0022643

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Dynamic neural fields. Dynamic neural fields represent metric information through a continuous distribution of activity (gray line) over a feature space (plotted along the x-axis). Panel (a) shows a hill of activity formed by localized external input. Panel (b) illustrates the effects of the local excitation/lateral inhibition interactions in the field triggered when the input drives activity beyond a (smooth) output threshold (dashed line).