So you want 10 neurons to do the job of one? That seems feasible.
Your ANN references don't say how to train one? That is pretty common because the training part is the "handwaving" part. Training requires you to be able to evaluate the result and tell the NN if it is right or wrong. If you can train a NN to do task X then you already know how to do task X so why did you spend all that time training?
I love the one where the US Army spent millions on a neural network to find tanks hidden in aerial surveillance photos. It turned out that the training photos of tanks were all taken on a sunny day and their expensive computer was just recognising sunshine.