[comp.ai.neural-nets] Learning Rates and Neural Plasticity

Walter L. Peterson wlp@calmasd.GE.COM (Calma Co. & West Coast Univ.) (12/20/88)

I am looking for references to recent work on learning rates and
neural plasticity in both artificial and biological neural networks 
for research that I am doing for my master's thesis.  The most recent
works that I have that address learing rates at all are in the proceedings
of the CMI Connectionist Summer School for '88 and some recent work on
neural plasticity in the visual cortex that was reported in last
month's Scientific American.

Can anyone "out there" point me toward anything else as recent or more
so ?  ( I have access to execllent library facilities, so don't worry
if it is a bit obscure ).  

Also if anyone out there is or has recently been working in this area,
I would like to hear from you ( any contributions will, of course, be 
acknowledged as references in the paper ).

Thanks in advance,

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Walter L. Peterson