No subject

to speech processing, image interpretation and robotics.

If you are interested, you may have a look to:

Alexandre, F., Burnod, Y., Guyot, F., Haton, J.P. (1991) "The
  Cortical Column: a new processing unit for multilayered networks",
  Neural Networks, Vol 4, n 1, pp. 15-25, 1991. 

Guyot, F., Alexandre, F., Haton, J.P. (1990) "Principles and
 applications of the cortical column symbolic neural model", IJCNN'90,
 San Diego. 

Alexandre, F., Guyot, F., Haton, J.P. (1990) "A connectionist
network with two complementary visual processing systems for x-ray
image interpretation", INNC'90, Paris.
 
I hope this can help

 alex

E-mail: falex at loria.fr