# James A. Anderson **Domain:** Cognitive Science / Neural Networks / Associative Memory **Doc Type:** Person Node **Maturity:** Historical ## Definition **James A. Anderson** is a cognitive scientist whose 1972 paper described a simple neural network capable of interactive associative memory. ## Technical Context The model adjusted connection strengths according to joint unit activity and reconstructed stored patterns from partial or corrupted cues. Its behavior under noise was analyzed mathematically. ## Sources / Provenance - James A. Anderson, “A Simple Neural Network Generating an Interactive Memory,” 1972. - [[articles/Modern Artificial Intelligence in the 1970s|Modern Artificial Intelligence in the 1970s]]. ## See Also [[wiki/Associative Memory|Associative Memory]], [[wiki/Distributed Representation|Distributed Representation]]