It is a self organizing, competitive network based on continuous time.
[1] Grossberg, a neuroscientist and a biomedical engineer, designed this network based on the human visual system.
The shunting model is one of Grossberg's neural network models, based on a Leaky integrator, described by the differential equation where
represents the activation level of a neuron,
represent the excitatory and inhibitory inputs to the neuron, and
are constants representing the leaky decay rate and the maximum and minimum activation levels.