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- From: jdevlin@pollux.usc.edu (Joseph T. Devlin)
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- Subject: Modeling
- Keywords: Connectionism, Neural Modeling
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- Date: 18 Nov 92 19:40:03 GMT
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- >> 4) When one sets up a "mathematical" model of the operation of a
- >> set of neurons in a particular part of the nervous system, what
- >> does one normally take into account, and what does one assume to be
- >> irrelevant to the modeling objective?
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- > 4) Currently the connectionist paradigm is the most popular for modelling
- > the functioning of the brain. The connectionist's bible is
- > "Parallel distributed processing" by some guys at San Diego that
- > I can't recall right now.
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- While this is true, McClelland and Rumelhart's PDP book gets alot
- of attention, I would say that Christof Koch and Idan Segev's book,
- _Methods in Neural Modeling_ is a much better perspective on modeling
- real neurons and what information one would like to include. I would
- recommend this book, and the Hille reference already mentioned, before
- the PDP material - depends on your particular focus, though.
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- - Joe
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