A new triangular t-norm and t-conorm are presented. The new fuzzy operations combined with the standard negation are applied in a practical problem, namely, they are proposed as suitable triangular norms for defining a fuzzy flip-flop based neuron. Other fuzzy J-K and D flip-flop based neurons are constructed by using algebraic, Lukasiewicz, Yager, Dombi and Hamacher connectives. The function approximation performance of a Fuzzy Neural Networks (FNN) built up from various fuzzy neurons are evaluated using six increasingly more complicated problems: various sine waves, battery cell charging characteristics, two dimensional trigonometric functions and a six dimensional benchmark problem. It is shown that the new norms lead to FNNs with better approximation properties in some cases than all the previous ones. © 2010 IEEE.