Kevin Spencer wrote:
>>junior1 at ibm.net [Bernie Arruza] writes:
>> >Are there any books on electrical, electronic.
> >electromechanical, software models of
> >brain/nervous system functions?.
>> Good grief, yes. You need to do a literature search. Just for
> starters, check out the journal Neural Computation. There are
However, Neural Computation tends to be too often too engineering
directed; examining artificial nets rather than modelling linked
with experimental results. For the latter sort of research you will
have to look around; there is a rarely found (UCLA is not subscribed
to it for example) journal called Computational Neuroscience. There is
also
a newer journal called Network: CNS. Biological Cybernetics publishes
useful stuff once in a while. Journal of Neurophysiology tends to be too
wet-bench directed. As you can see, computational neuroscience per se,
but not artificial nets research, is very much a new field.
> several books on modeling real neural networks -- one that springs
> to mind is by Christof Koch (and Idan Segev?), and a book by Ronald
> MacGregor.
>> [snip]
>> >Acknowledgements. I have noticed that the people
> >writing papers put a lot of effort in describing
> >work that was previously done (names/details). In
> >engineering papers those details are, for the most
> >part, provided as references at the end of the paper.
> >is this a matter of etiquette?.
>> I'm not familiar with engineering papers, but I would guess
> that the difference in style is that in engineering, the work
> that was already done is accepted, while in such a new field
> as neural modeling, there are disagreements on even the basics.
>> [snip]
>> Kevin
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> Kevin Spencer
> Cognitive Psychophysiology Laboratory and Beckman Institute
> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
>kspencer at p300.cpl.uiuc.edu> -----------------------------------------------------------
