Methods in Neuronal Modeling: From Synapses to Networks (Computational Neuroscience)
Christof Koch


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1 Good introduction to Neuronal Modeling, maybe outdated.
I read this book as part of a Robotics Research project. It is a good introduction to Neuronal Modeling, and it was the first technical handbook of computational neuroscience. The book is a series of 13 articles on topics such as computer simulations of neural circuits, biophysical mechanisms for computation in neurons, etc. Each chapter concludes with a description of the model discussed and the details of its implementation on the computer. Since it is a series of articles, with many authors, the book feels a little bit fragmented. However, it is put together nicely and must have been skillfully edited. The book is easy to read, as well as interesting.

The book should be of interest to a variety of people in Medicine and Technology (other than the people in the specific field), but especially to those who work with Artificial Neural Networks. An interested layman could also read this book. I have to admit that I have not read the second edition of this book, but hopefully it is equally good, in addition to being more up to date, so the second edition would probably be the one you should buy first.



Tuesday, 02-Dec-2008 14:39:28 CST
Quote of the Day:


Living in the complex world of the future is somewhat like having bees

live in your head. But, there they are.

Every man who has reached even his intellectual teens begins to suspect
that life is no farce; that it is not genteel comedy even; that it flowers
and fructifies on the contrary out of the profoundest tragic depths of the
essential death in which its subject's roots are plunged. The natural
inheritance of everyone who is capable of spiritual life is an unsubdued
forest where the wolf howls and the obscene bird of night chatters.
-- Henry James Sr., writing to his sons Henry and William