The Book of GENESIS: Exploring Realistic Neural Models with the GEneral NEural SImulation System - Softcover

Bower, James M.; Beeman, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1461272246 ISBN 13: 9781461272243

Publisher: Springer, 2014

Synopsis

"The Book of GENESIS" is in two parts. Firstly, a collection of contributed articles describes projects created using the GENESIS system, and then a step-by-step tutorial explains how the software works and how best to manipulate it so as to achieve maximum use. As a result, this publication may be seen as a reference guide, a textbook for course use, and as a resource to which readers can turn for ideas on how to devise their own models and applications. The accompanying cross-platform CD-ROM contains the full source code for GENESIS and its graphical interface, XODUS; the GENESIS Reference Manual in hypertext, plain text and Postscript formats; numerous tutorial simulations and example simulation scripts, including all of those used in the book. As a bonus, also included on the CD are a number of items which are not part of the standard distribution of GENESIS. The GENESIS system will continue to be made available through the Cal Tech World Wide Web site, as well, at: www.bbb.caltech.edu/GENESIS.

About this title

From the Back Cover

This is the second edition of a step-by -step tutorial for professionals, researchers and students working in the area of neuroscience in general, and computational neuroscience in particular. It can also be used as an interactive self-study guide to understanding biological neuronal and network structure for those working in the area of artificial neural networks and the cognitive sciences. The tutorials are based upon the GENESIS neural simulation system, which is now being used for teaching and research in at least 26 countries. The following chapters consist of a combination of edited contributions from researchers in computational neuroscience and current users of the system, as well as several chapters that we have written ourselves. This book, and the tutorial simulations on which it is based, grew out of a simulation laboratory accompanying the annual Methods in Computational Neuroscience course taught at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA from 1988 to 1992. Since that time, the tutorials have been further developed and refined while being used in courses taught at Caltech and several other institutions, including the Crete course in Computational Neuroscience. For this second edition, we have made many revisions and additions based on comments, suggestions and corrections from members of the GENESIS Users Group, BABEL, and from students and teachers who have used this book.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1461272246
• ISBN 13: 9781461272243
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 458