Computational neuroscience

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Computational neuroscience is an interdisciplinary field which draws on neuroscience, computer science, and applied mathematics. It most often uses mathematical and computational techniques such as computer simulations and mathematical models to understand the function of the nervous system.

The field of computational neuroscience began with the work of Andrew Huxley, Alan Hodgkin, and David Marr. The results of Hodgkin and Huxley's pioneering work in developing the voltage clamp allowed them to develop the first mathematical model of the action potential. David Marr's work focuses on the interactions between neurons, suggesting computational approaches to the study of how functional groups of neurons within the hippocampus and neocortex interact, store, process, and transmit information.

[edit] See also

• Connectionism
• Neural network
• Cell potential
• Transmembrane potential difference
• electrophysiology
• Important publications in neuroscience
• Brain-computer interface
• Neural engineering
• Neurotechnology

[edit] References

• Eric L. Schwartz, ed.: Computational Neuroscience, MIT Press, 1990, ISBN 0262192918.
• Peter Dayan, L.F. Abbott: Theoretical Neuroscience: Computational and Mathematical Modeling of Neural Systems, MIT Press, 2001, ISBN 0262041995.
• Rieke, F. et. al.: Spikes: Exploring the Neural Code, MIT Press, 1999, ISBN 0262681080.
• Erik de Schutter, ed.: Computational Neuroscience - Realistic Modeling for Experimentalists, CRC Press, 2000, ISBN 0849320682.

[edit] External links

• Biological Cybernetics Journal
• The Journal of Computational Neuroscience
• Neural Computation
• Genesis, a general neural simulation system
• Neuron, a neural network simulator
• HHsim, a neuronal membrane simulator
• Cosyne, a major computational neuroscience meeting
• compneuro.org, books and programs for neural modeling

Neuroscience subfields:	Edit
Cognitive neuroscience | Computational neuroscience | Neuroanatomy | Neurochemistry | Neuroimaging | Neurolinguistics | Neurology | Neuropsychology | Psychopharmacology | Systems neuroscience

Edit	General subfields and scientists in Cybernetics
K1	Polycontexturality, Second-order cybernetics
K2	Catastrophe theory, Connectionism, Control theory, Decision theory, Information theory, Semiotics, Synergetics, Sociosynergetics, Systems theory
K3	Biological cybernetics, Biomedical cybernetics, Biorobotics, Computational neuroscience, Homeostasis, Medical cybernetics, Neuro cybernetics, Sociocybernetics
Cyberneticians	William Ross Ashby, Claude Bernard, Valentin Braitenberg, Ludwig von Bertalanffy, George S. Chandy, Joseph J. DiStefano III, Heinz von Foerster, Charles François, Jay Forrester, Buckminster Fuller, Ernst von Glasersfeld, Francis Heylighen, Erich von Holst, Stuart Kauffman, Sergei P. Kurdyumov, Niklas Luhmann, Warren McCulloch, Humberto Maturana, Horst Mittelstaedt, Talcott Parsons, Walter Pitts, Alfred Radcliffe-Brown, Robert Trappl, Valentin Turchin, Francisco Varela, Frederic Vester, John N. Warfield, Kevin Warwick, Norbert Wiener

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