Modules - Computing and the Brain

Introduction to From Computer to Brain, W.W. Lytton
Computational Neuroscience and You: Chapter 2 of From Computer to Brain, W.W. Lytton
Neuroscience Overview: Chapter 2 of The Computational Brain
Computational Overview: Chapter 3 of The Computational Brain
Introduction to the nerve impulse (action potential): pages 1-10 and 33 onwards.
Spiking Neurons: Chapter 1 of Pulsed Neural Networks
Encoding Information in Neuronal Activity: Chapter 4 of Pulsed Neural Networks
MIT CogNet: lots of relevant books and other material on-line, including the books listed above (from University of Stirling sites only)
Nature Neuroscience: special issue of the journal reviewing work in computational neuroscience

Neurosciences on the Internet: extensive database of links to neuroscience sites (courtesy of Dr Neil Busis)
BioInteractive: wonderful interactive animations of lots of things, including elements of the nervous system (courtesy of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute)
Cell-Tissue-Body Explorer: more interactive animations, including elements of the nervous system (courtesy of Dr Tomaz Amon)
The Joy of Visual Perception: an on-line book by Peter Kaiser
Movement Control 1: models and movies of movement, including a lamprey swimming (from the SANS group at KTH, Stockholm)
Movement Control 2: models and movies of movement, including a salamander swimming and walking (from BIRG, EPFL, Switzerland)
Quicktime movie of cursor movement to target, from the paper, Instant Neural Control of a Movement Signal by Serruya et al, Nature 416:141-142, 2002 (as talked about in the Neural Coding lectures).
- The red circle represents a target 0.6 ° visual angle (13 mm on the screen). The green circle represents the neural control cursor. Each time the subject touches the target, he receives a reward and a new target appears at a random location.
Bee foraging: the work of Dr Read Montague's group.

NEURON Simulator Home Page
NEURON HOC and NMODL Tutorials
- tutorials A-C are relevant to the Computing and the Brain course.
NEURON Simulations from Lytton's book, From Computer to Brain.