Overview
- A comprehensive overview of the computational neuroscience field, relevant for both researchers and students
- Contains nearly 1,000 entries in 50 subject areas
- Cross-linked with the Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, the Encyclopedia of Machine Learning, and other major reference works
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The annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting (CNS) began in 1990 as a small workshop called Analysis and Modeling of Neural Systems. The goal of the workshop was to explore the boundary between neuroscience and computation. Riding on the success of several seminal papers, physicists had made "Neural Networks" fashionable, and soon the quantitative methods used in these abstract model networks started permeating the methods and ideas of experimental neuroscientists. Although experimental neurophysiological approaches provided many advances, it became increasingly evident that mathematical and computational techniques would be required to achieve a comprehensive and quantitative understanding of neural system function. “Computational Neuroscience” emerged to complement experimental neurophysiology. In 2002, the non-profit organization, Organization for Computational Neuroscience (OCNS) was formed. OCNS has now become the first professional society serving the global computational neuroscience community. OCNS as a society lives at the interface where experimental neuroscience meets theoretical, statistical and computer-simulation analyses, with the hope of turning large collections of experimental results into a principled understanding of nervous systems. It also supports the development of new engineering, computational and informatics techniques for data collection, analyses and management.
The Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience will be consultable by both researchers and graduate level students. It will be a dynamic, living reference, continually updatable and containing linkouts and multimedia content whenever relevant.
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Table of contents (622 entries)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Dieter Jaeger is a professor in the Department of Biology at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. His research examines how basal ganglia impact decision-making and motor control in thalamo-cortical networks through modeling and systems physiological approaches.
Dr. Ranu Jung is Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering and inaugural executive director of the Institute for Integrative and Innovative Research at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, where her research concerns neural engineering and computational neuroscience.
Dr. Ranu Jung is Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering and inaugural executive director of the Institute for Integrative and Innovative Research at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, where her research concerns neural engineering and computational neuroscience.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience
Editors: Dieter Jaeger, Ranu Jung
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7320-6
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Springer Reference Biomedicine and Life Sciences, Reference Module Biomedical and Life Sciences
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-7320-6Due: 18 January 2022
Number of Illustrations: 1000 b/w illustrations
Additional Information: In 2 volumes, not available separately
Topics: Neurosciences, Neurobiology, Computation by Abstract Devices