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The problems and beauty of teaching computational neuroscience are discussed by reviewing three new textbooks.
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Thanks for my numerous teaching assistants over the years. I had many conversation with them about the method of teaching of this discipline. I also thank to the Henry Luce Foundation to let me to serve as a Henry R Luce Professor. Thank you for Brian Dalluge (who is now in my Computational Neuroscience class) for copy editing the manuscript.
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Érdi, P. Teaching computational neuroscience. Cogn Neurodyn 9, 479–485 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11571-015-9340-6
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