This article deals with the study of approximation behavior of the exponential sampling type Kantorovich max-product neural network operators based on sigmoidal activation function. We study point-wise and uniform convergence theorems in the space of continuous functions for these operators and determine the rate of convergence by means of logarithmic modulus of continuity. We also investigate the approximation of p -th ( 1 ≤ p < ∞ ) Lebesgue integrable functions by the aforementioned operators and study the rate of convergence exploiting Peetre’s K − functional.