Dieter Jaeger – Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience (2015)

Автор: Dieter Jaeger
Название книги: Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience (2015)
Формат: PDF
Жанр: Медицина
Страницы: 3229
Качество: Изначально компьютерное, E-book

The annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting (CNS) began in 1990 as a small workshop called Analysis and Modeling of Neural Systems. The goal of the workshop was to explore the boundary between neuroscience and computation. Riding on the success of several seminal papers, physicists had made “Neural Networks” fashionable, and soon the quantitative methods used in these abstract model networks started permeating the methods and ideas of experimental neuroscientists. Although experimental neurophysiological approaches provided many advances, it became increasingly evident that mathematical and computational techniques would be required to achieve a comprehensive and quantitative understanding of neural system function. “Computational Neuroscience” emerged to complement experimental neurophysiology.

The Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience, published in conjunction with the Organization for Computational Neuroscience, will be an extensive reference work consultable by both researchers and graduate level students. It will be a dynamic, living reference, updatable and containing linkouts and multimedia content whenever relevant

Computational Neuroscience has emerged in the last three decades as an
interdisciplinary research area combing approaches from mathematics, physics,
engineering, computer science, and neurobiology. Combining theoretical and
computational approaches with experimental data has proven to illuminate
neural function from molecular to system levels. A testimony to this success
comes from the emergence of several international conferences in this field of
study, such as the Organization of Computational Neuroscience (http://www.
cnsorg.org/) and Cosyne (http://www.cosyne.org) annual meetings. Specialized
funding sources for this area of research have also made a huge impact, and the
field owes much to the organizers of the NIH/NSF Collaborative Research in
Computational Neuroscience program and the German Bernstein Network.
Importantly, new initiatives in data sharing as well as model sharing based on
modern markup language syntax and semantics will make it possible in the near
future to present an accessible collaborative interface between investigators as
the field matures. These efforts are in part promoted by the field of
Neuroinformatics and the International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility
(http://incf.org/).
We hope that the new Springer Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience
will bring this young field closer to the eye of the general scientific
community and provide a valuable resource in explaining the many angles of
this highly active enterprise. The Encyclopedia highlights achievements and
approaches to describe basic neural function and major brain systems as well
as biomedical applications in more than 570 articles organized into 49 sections
of research. At-depth articles provide comprehensive coverage of
important topics in these disciplines, whereas short articles summarize individual
concepts and key terms. The interplay between computational and
theoretical approaches and experimental data is highlighted at all levels, from
molecular to cognitive. Available shared database resources are also covered.
While overall alphabetically sorted, an introduction of each section is
presented in articles denoted with “Overview,” which also provide organized
links to section articles.