Stephen,
I still remember the first time (decades ago) I saw how ART searched through competing patterns using habituation.
Considering the relative simplicity of the model, the behavior was incredible. This opened up my eyes to the possibilities of neural networks and showed that it is really possible to have patterns “overlap” in the same space. Your work really turned me on to neural networks and away from “symbolic AI” processing.
Thank you for starting me on this path.