# Artificial Neural Networks
**Domain:** Machine Learning / Computational Models
**Doc Type:** Concept
**Maturity:** Developed
**Related:** [[Warren McCulloch]], [[Machine Learning]], [[Reinforcement Learning]], [[Machine Intelligence Continuum]], [[Schedule and Loop]]
## Definition
**Artificial neural networks** are computational models composed of connected units whose weighted interactions can be adjusted to learn mappings, representations or policies from data.
## Schedule–Loop Context
Early formal neural models helped make internal organization computationally explicit. Modern networks substantially extend those beginnings but preserve the core move from behavior alone toward learned internal structure.
## Backlinks
- [[Schedule and Loop]]
- [[articles/Schedule and Loop|Schedule and Loop]]