A theory that relates biophysical properties of single neurons to principles of Bayesian probability theory, reinforcement learning and efficient coding.

Reviews and integrates a variety of computational approaches that have been used to characterize the dynamics of the cortex, as evidenced at different levels of measurement.

"We have a particular interest in facilitating interdisciplinary projects which may have difficulty finding a home within the classic university funding structure."

A three-dimensional map of large-scale neocortical pathways with high correlation between structural and functional connection patterns.

Panel discussion on the role of theoretical neuroscience at the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience.

Friston's "brains are Bayesian predictors that minimize (thermodynamic) free energy" idea goes mainstream.

The paper that changed Stanislas Deheane's mind regarding the idea that there could never be a single, major, simple yet encompassing theory of how the brain works.

Shows that intranasal administration of oxytocin, a neuropeptide that plays a key role in social attachment and affiliation in non-human mammals, causes a substantial increase in trust among humans.

"It is not about being stubborn, but rather actually seeing a different world. Consequently, it is not something that can be overcome by being more rational in any direct sense, since it is the inputs to the rational process which are flawed."

Leading researchers on many disciplines of brain study – including neuroscience, neurobiology, computer science, robotics and economics – converged at Mason to discuss the urgent need for a decade-long research initiative into brain research.

Recent evidence indicates that problems in information processing within neural networks might underlie depression, and that antidepressant drugs induce plastic changes in neuronal connectivity, which gradually lead to improvements and recovery of mood.

The Blue Brain Project is scheduled right now to last beyond 2015. By then, unless the project proves too ambitious, Markram and his team hope to be ready for their primary goal: a computer model of an entire human brain.

"I suddenly realized that my perception had shifted. I had some kind of internal map of the city in my head. I could always find my way home. Eventually, I felt I couldn't get lost, even in a completely new place."

Studying Brain Wiring and Function in Drosophila.

"There are really two big promising directions in machine learning/AI today: evolutionary computation and brain reverse-engineering. Some readers might be curious as to why I'm working on evolutionary computation and not neuroscience-based approaches."

Eric Kandel lists the four major accomplishments in neuroscience in the past year that have inspired him.

BA Studiengang an der Otto-von-Guericke Universität Magdeburg.

The Numenta Platform for Intelligent Computing is now available. NuPIC implements a hierarchical temporal memory system (HTM) patterned after the human neocortex.

"On October 27, 2005 I finished simulation of a model that has the size of the human brain. The model has 100,000,000,000 neurons and almost 1,000,000,000,000,000 synapses. One second of simulation took 50 days on a beowulf cluster of 27 processors."

The OpenEEG project is about making plans and software for do-it-yourself EEG devices available for free (as in GPL).

Wikibook-Project for students of the University of Osnabrück.