>> 4) When one sets up a "mathematical" model of the operation of a
>> set of neurons in a particular part of the nervous system, what
>> does one normally take into account, and what does one assume to be
>> irrelevant to the modeling objective?
> 4) Currently the connectionist paradigm is the most popular for modelling
> the functioning of the brain. The connectionist's bible is
> "Parallel distributed processing" by some guys at San Diego that
> I can't recall right now.
While this is true, McClelland and Rumelhart's PDP book gets alot
of attention, I would say that Christof Koch and Idan Segev's book,
_Methods in Neural Modeling_ is a much better perspective on modeling
real neurons and what information one would like to include. I would
recommend this book, and the Hille reference already mentioned, before
the PDP material - depends on your particular focus, though.
- Joe
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Joseph Devlin * email: jdevlin at pollux.usc.edu
University of Southern California *
Department of Computer Science * "The axon doesn't think.
Los Angeles, CA 90089 * It just ax." George Bishop
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