Introducing Computation to Neuroscience

Ad Aertsen is Professor of Neurobiology and Biophysics, Bernstein Center Freiburg, University of FreiburgSonja Grün is Professor for Theoretical Systems Neurobiology, RWTH Aachen UniversityPedro E. Maldonado is Professor of Neuroscience, University of ChileGünther Palm is Professor, Institute for Neural Information Processing, Ulm University

• 1. Integrate and fire: RC circuits to model neurons and reward monkeys.- 2. Neuronal spike trains, stochastic point processes, and why George Gerstein’s papers are still worth reading.- 3. Visual Functions of Inferior Temporal Cortex.- 4. Early Days in the Gerstein Lab: Neuronal Plasticity in 1, 2, and 3 Dimensions.- 5. Patterns in Spike Trains.- 6. Introduction to the Gravity Papers.- 7. On correlations and interactions between neurons and with George Gerstein.- 8. Significance of Correlations between Spike Trains.- 9. Spatial-Temporal Spike Patterns.- 10. Does Cross Correlation Have a Unique Interpretation?.- 11. Neuronal Plasticity and my Experience Working with George L. Gerstein.- 12. Auditory Experiments and Modeling.- 13. Thinking about Analysis Methods with George in Philadelphia, Cambridge and Newcastle.- 14. Higher-order Correlations and Synfire Chains.- Nencki Award for George L. Gerstein.