{"id":8583,"date":"2019-05-22T16:09:17","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/non-linear_associator\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:09:17","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:09:17","slug":"non-linear_associator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/non-linear_associator\/","title":{"rendered":"Non-linear associator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A system that associates a number of inputs with a number of outputs in a non-linear way. &nbsp;This could mean that, for example, inputs that are only slightly different are associated with outputs that are very different, and vice versa. &nbsp;In neural network models, non-linearity is achieved by the non-linear activation function of the processing units, such as a threshold, sigmoid (S-shaped) or Gaussian (bell-shaped) function.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"connectionist_models\">Connectionist models<\/a>, <a href=\"neural_net\">Neural net<\/a>, <a href=\"non-linear_dynamics\">Non-linear dynamics<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A system that associates a number of inputs with a number of outputs in a non-linear way. &nbsp;This could mean that, for example, inputs that are only slightly different are associated with outputs that are very different, and vice versa. &nbsp;In neural network models, non-linearity is achieved by the non-linear activation function of the processing &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/non-linear_associator\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Non-linear associator&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}