%0 Journal Article %@ 0378-4371 %A Perotti, Juan I. %A Tamarit, Francisco A. %A Cannas, Sergio A. %D 2006 %F eprints:2396 %I Elsevier %J Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications %K Neural networks; Scale-free networks; Strong dilution %N 1 %P 71 - 75 %T A scale-free neural network for modelling neurogenesis %U http://eprints.imtlucca.it/2396/ %V 371 %X In this work we introduce a neural network model for associative memory based on a diluted Hopfield model, which grows through a neurogenesis algorithm that guarantees that the final network is a small-world and scale-free one. We also analyze the storage capacity of the network and prove that its performance is larger than that measured in a randomly dilute network with the same connectivity. %Z LAWNP 2005: IX Latin American Workshop on Nonlinear Phenomena