Neuromorphic engineers are studying the nervous system and trying to emulate its function and organization in their computational and robotics systems. They are hoping to match (or perhaps even exceed) the human brain in vision, hearing, pattern recognition and learning tasks (Boahen 2005). Read the rest of this entry »

Ever wondered what neurons do to each other? How does a signal generated in one neuron cause a reaction in another neuron? Neurons behavior is fairly complex (see this post), but with some simplification we can begin to understand, and model, how neurons affect each other and ultimately determine information processing in the brain. Read the rest of this entry »

“You think you know when you learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.” Alan J. Perlis, Yale University

Neurdons cannot agree more. Reading and writing about neuroscience is not nearly as fun as creating a pulsing neural model! Recently, the Technology Lab at the Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems, where Neurdon was founded, has started to post a number of software tools, most of them in MATLAB, ranging from neural simulation software, to simple neural models, to biologically-inspired machine learning and machine vision tools. Read the rest of this entry »