What have neural networks achieved?

[DeLiang Wang]

On the neuroscience front, a major success story of neural networks is
the temporal (oscillatory) correlation theory, proposed and
systematically advocated by Christoph von der Malsburg of USC and
Univ. of Bochum. His pioneering theory was first described in 1981
(see below) in perhaps the most quoted technical report in neural
networks (for a brief but earlier speculation along this line see
Milner, 1974). His theory and prediction led to the two first
confirmative reports by Echorn et al. (1988) and Gray et
al. (1989). Since then numerous experiments have been conducted that
confirm the theory (not without some controversy), including many
papers published in Nature and Science (see Phillips and Singer, 1997,
for a recent review).