{"id":8837,"date":"2019-05-22T16:12:03","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/processing_units\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:12:03","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:12:03","slug":"processing_units","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/processing_units\/","title":{"rendered":"Processing units"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The units in a connectionist model. &nbsp;A processing unit normally receives input from other units and\/or from the environment. &nbsp;Depending on the magnitude of this input and on the activation function of the processing unit (e.g., a threshold function), &nbsp;it can itself become active. &nbsp;In this way, a processing unit shares basic properties with biological neurons.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See Activation (in connectionist models, <a href=\"connectionist_models\">Connectionist models<\/a>, <a href=\"neuron\">Neuron<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The units in a connectionist model. &nbsp;A processing unit normally receives input from other units and\/or from the environment. &nbsp;Depending on the magnitude of this input and on the activation function of the processing unit (e.g., a threshold function), &nbsp;it can itself become active. &nbsp;In this way, a processing unit shares basic properties with biological &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/processing_units\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Processing units&#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-8837","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\/8837","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=8837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}