Artificial Neural Network Modelling: An Introduction

While scientists from different disciplines, such as neuroscience, medicine and high performance computing, eagerly attempt to understand how the human brain functioning happens, Knowledge Engineers in computing have been successful in making use of the brain models thus far discovered to introduce heuristics into computational algorithmic modelling. Gaining further understanding on human brain/nerve cell anatomy, structure, and how the human brain functions, is described to be significant especially, to devise treatments for presently described as incurable brain and nervous system related diseases, such as Alzheimer’s and epilepsy. Despite some major breakthroughs seen over the last few decades neuroanatomists and neurobiologists of the medical world are yet to understand how we humans think, learn and remember, and how our cognition and behaviour are linked. In this context, the chapter outlines the most recent human brain research initiatives following which early Artificial Neural Network (ANN) architectures, components, related terms and hybrids are elaborated.