Overview
- Editors:
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Eytan Domany
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Department of Electronics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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J. Leo Hemmen
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Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität München, Garching bei München, Germany
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Klaus Schulten
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Department of Physics and Beckman, Institute University of Illinois, Urbana, USA
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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- Wulfram Gerstner, J. Leo van Hemmen
Pages 1-93
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- Christoph von der Malsburg
Pages 95-119
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- Raphael Ritz, Wulfram Gerstner, J. Leo van Hemmen
Pages 175-219
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- Thomas H. Brown, Sumantra Chattarji
Pages 287-314
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- Olaf Sporns, Giulio Tononi, Gerald M. Edelman
Pages 315-341
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Back Matter
Pages 343-347
About this book
Since the appearance of Vol. 1 of Models of Neural Networks in 1991, the theory of neural nets has focused on two paradigms: information coding through coherent firing of the neurons and functional feedback. Information coding through coherent neuronal firing exploits time as a cardinal degree of freedom. This capacity of a neural network rests on the fact that the neuronal action potential is a short, say 1 ms, spike, localized in space and time. Spatial as well as temporal correlations of activity may represent different states of a network. In particular, temporal correlations of activity may express that neurons process the same "object" of, for example, a visual scene by spiking at the very same time. The traditional description of a neural network through a firing rate, the famous S-shaped curve, presupposes a wide time window of, say, at least 100 ms. It thus fails to exploit the capacity to "bind" sets of coherently firing neurons for the purpose of both scene segmentation and figure-ground segregation. Feedback is a dominant feature of the structural organization of the brain. Recurrent neural networks have been studied extensively in the physical literature, starting with the ground breaking work of John Hop field (1982).
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Electronics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Eytan Domany
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Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität München, Garching bei München, Germany
J. Leo Hemmen
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Department of Physics and Beckman, Institute University of Illinois, Urbana, USA
Klaus Schulten
