Teaching computational neuroscience

Affiliations

¹ Center for Complex Systems Studies, Kalamazoo College, 1200 Academy Street, Kalamazoo, MI 49006 USA ; Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary.

Review

Péter Érdi. Cogn Neurodyn. 2015 Oct.

. 2015 Oct;9(5):479-85.

doi: 10.1007/s11571-015-9340-6. Epub 2015 Mar 21.

¹ Center for Complex Systems Studies, Kalamazoo College, 1200 Academy Street, Kalamazoo, MI 49006 USA ; Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary.

Abstract

The problems and beauty of teaching computational neuroscience are discussed by reviewing three new textbooks.

Keywords: Computational neuroscience; Education; Models.

1. Izhikevich E. Dynamical systems in neuroscience. Cambridge: MIT press; 2007.
1. Anderson B. Computational neuroscience and cognitive modelling. A student’s introduction to methods and procedures. Beverley Hills: Sage Publ. Ltd; 2014.
1. Arbib M. The handbook of brain theory and neural networks. Cambridge: MIT Press; 2002.
1. Bower J. 20 Years of computational neuroscience. Verlag: Springer; 2013.
1. Dayan P, Abbott L. Theoretical neuroscience. Cambridge: MIT Press; 2001.