A Very Basic Introduction to Computational Neuroscience

I'm a computer scientist.
I think we really don't understand something until we can make a computational model of it.
In neuroscience, these are typically called in-silico models, and there is a lot that can be said about the quality of models (both computational and non-computational).
So I'm going to give a very basic talk about computational models in neuroscience.
I'm also computational neuroscientist. I work in the Human Brain Project developing models of neural systems.
My neural systems uses pretty simple models of neurons and synapses. The underlying topology (the way the neurons are connected) is also pretty simple, and not particularly biologically realistic. I am however intereseted in neuro-cognitive models.

by Chris Huyck