Liquid computing and analysis of sound signals

Liquid Computing Theory is a proposal of modelling the behaviour of neural microcircuits.It focuses on creating a group of neurons, known as a liquid layer, responsible for preprocessing of the signal that is being analysed. Specific information is achieved by the readout layers, task oriented groups of neurons, taught to extract particular information from the state of liquid layer. The LSMs have been used to analyse sound signals. The liquid layer was implemented in the PCSIM Simulator, and the readout layer has been prepared in the JNNS simulator. It could successfully recognise certain sounds despite noises. Those results encourage further research of the computational potentialof Liquid State Machines including working in parallel with many readout layers.