Abstract
A feedback SOM is a revised version of the standard SOM for dealing with time-dependent data. Since its proposal, even though its effectiveness has been confirmed, most applications are carried out with small data sets. Then, in this article, an on-line character recognition task with about 20 samples is tried. As a result, it is found experimentally that revision of training method for time series is effective to avoid local reinforcement of the initial state and its neighborhood, which led the SOM to similar responses in spite of different input patterns.