Michael Olea wrote:
>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
This one, for example:
An information theoretic approach to the functional classification of
neurons. E Schneidman, W Bialek, & MJ Berry II, in Advances in Neural
Information Processing 15, S Becker, S Thrun & K Obermayer, eds, pp 197-204
(MIT Press, Cambridge, 2003).
Available here:
http://www.princeton.edu/~wbialek/more_coding_links.html
-- Michael
