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A section of an artificial neural network. The weight, or strength, of each input is indicated here by the relative size of its connection. The firing threshold for the output neuron, N, is 4 in this example. Hence, N is quiescent unless a combination of input signals is received from W, X, Y, and Z that exceeds a weight of 4.

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