%A Michael Spratling %A Gillian Hayes %J Neural Processing Letters %T Learning synaptic clusters for non-linear dendritic processing %X Nonlinear dendritic processing appears to be a feature of biological neurons and would also be of use in many applications of artificial neural networks. This paper presents a model of an initially standard linear unit which uses unsupervised learning to find clusters of inputs within which inactivity at one synapse can occlude the activity at the other synapses. %N 1 %P 17-27 %V 11 %D 2000 %L cogprints1109