Flashcards: Computational neuroscience

A dendritic spine (or spine) is a small membranous protrusion from a neuron's dendrite that typically receives input from a single axon at the synapse.

A biological neuron model, also known as a spiking neuron model, is a mathematical model of the electrical properties of neuronal action potentials, which are sharp changes in the electrical potential across the cell membrane that last for about one millisecond.

Neural Networks (also referred to as connectionist systems) are a computational approach which is based on a large collection of neural units loosely modeling the way the brain solves problems with large clusters of biological neurons connected by axons.

In physiology, an action potential is a short-lasting event in which the electrical membrane potential of a cell rapidly rises and falls, following a consistent trajectory.

Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is the intelligence of a (hypothetical) machine that could successfully perform any intellectual task that a human being can.

Neural oscillation is rhythmic or repetitive neural activity in the central nervous system.

Laurent Itti (born December 12, 1970 in Tours, France) is a computational neuroscientist.

Network of human nervous system comprises nodes (for example, neurons) that are connected by links (for example, synapses).

NEST is a simulation software for spiking neural network models, including large-scale neuronal networks.

Connectome: How the Brain's Wiring Makes Us Who We Are (2012) is a book by Sebastian Seung.

Brian is an open source Python package for developing simulations of networks of spiking neurons.

Ogi Jonathan Ogas is an American writer who received doctoral training as a computational neuroscientist.

The Conference and Workshop on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) is a machine learning and computational neuroscience conference held every December.

Neuroinformatics is a scientific journal published by Springer under the imprint Humana Press.

The Budapest Reference Connectome computes the frequently appearing anatomical brain connections of 418 healthy subjects.

Neuron is a simulation environment for modeling individual neurons and networks of neurons.

Artificial consciousness (AC), also known as machine consciousness (MC) or synthetic consciousness (; ), is a field related to artificial intelligence and cognitive robotics.