borg at swirve.com wrote:
> Hi all,
>> I've only recently started reading about spiking neurons. One of the
> first papers I read was "Which Model to Use for Cortical Spiking
> Neurons" by Izhikevich, which illustrates the spiking behaviour of 20
> different types of biological spiking neurons. However, what I haven't
> been able to discover with my preliminary reading is whether specific
> types of spiking neurons are localized to specific areas of the brain
> or whether all types are distributed evenly. In addition, I have not
> been able to find anything definate about specific functional roles of
> the various types of spiking neuron behavior in the brain, either
> singularly or in combination.
> So, where should I go next? Do my questions even have known or
> theorized answers? Any good references, papers, or books that are
> recommended for further reading?
Not exactly what you are asking, but you might be interested anyway in
"Spikes: Exlporing the Neural Code":
http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=3884
And perhaps some papers here:
http://www.princeton.edu/~wbialek/categories.html
