Computational Modelling in Behavioural Neuroscience (eBook, ePUB)

Closing the Gap Between Neurophysiology and Behaviour
Redaktion: Heinke, Dietmar; Mavritsaki, Eirini

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Classically, behavioural neuroscience theorizes about experimental evidence in a qualitative way. However, more recently there has been an increasing development of mathematical and computational models of experimental results, and in general these models are more clearly defined and more detailed than their qualitative counter parts. These new computational models can be set up so that they are consistent with both single neuron and whole-system levels of operation, allowing physiological results to be meshed with behavioural data - thus closing the gap between neurophysiology and human behaviour.

There is considerable diversity between models with respect to the methodology of designing a model, the degree to which neurophysiological processes are taken into account and the way data (behavioural, electrophysiological, etc) constrains a model. This book presents examples of this diversity and in doing so represents the state-of-art in the field through a unique collection of papers from the world's leading researchers in the area of computational modelling in behavioural neuroscience.

Based on talks given at the third Behavioural Brain Sciences Symposium, held at the Behavioural Brain Sciences Centre, University of Birmingham, in May 2007, the book appeals to a broad audience, from postgraduate students beginning to work in the field to experienced experimenters interested in an overview.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. April 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135430023
• Artikelnr.: 38253109

Autorenporträt

Dietmar Heinke is a senior lecturer at the School of Psychology, University of Birmingham. His research interests include developing computational models for a broad range of psychological phenomena. Eirini Mavritsaki is a research fellow at the University of Birmingham investigating the cognitive functions using models of spiking neurons.

Inhaltsangabe

Mavritsaki
Heinke
Preface. Graham
Cutsuridis
Dynamical Information Processing in the CA1 Microcircuit of the Hippocampus. Thorpe
Why Connectionist Models Need Spikes. Deco
Rolls
Stochastic Neuro-Dynamical Computation of Brain Functions. Humphreys
Mavritsaki
Allen
Heinke
Deco
Application of Neural Level Model to Human Visual Search: Modelling the Whole System Behaviour
Neuropsychological Break Down and Neural Signal Response. Heinke
Mavritsaki
Backhaus
Kreyling
The Selective Attention for Identification Model (SAIM): A Framework for Closing the Gap Between Behaviour and Neurological Level. Gurney
Computational Models in Neuroscience: From Membrane to Robots. Zhaoping
May
Koene
Some Finger Prints of V1 Mechanisms in the Bottom up Saliency for Visual Selection. Trappenberg
Decision Making and Population Decoding with Strongly Inhibitory Neural Field Models. Bullinaria
The Importance of Neurophysiological Constraints for Modelling the Emergence of Modularity. Ward
Ward
Selective Attention in Linked
Minimally Cognitive Agents. Kropff
Full Solution for the Storage of Correlated Memories in an Autoassociative Memory. Mozer
Wilder
A Unified Theory of Exogenous and Endogenous Attentional Control. Friston
Stephan
Kiebel
Free-Energy
Value and Neuronal Systems. Sloman
Architecture and Representation Requirements for Seeing Processes and Affordances. Heinke
Computational Modelling in Behavioural Neuroscience: Methodologies and Approaches - Minutes of Discussions at the Workshop in Birmingham
UK in May 2007