Download or read book The Book of GENESIS written by James Bower and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-08-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, and the tutorial simulations on which it is based, grew out of a simula tion laboratory accompanying the annual Methods in Computational Neuroscience course taught at the Marine Biology Laboratory, in Woods Hole, MA. These tutori als and early drafts of the book were further developed and refined while being used in courses taught at Caltech and several other institutions. We have designed the book to be a step-by-step tutorial for professionals, re searchers and students working in the area of neuroscience in general, and com putational neuroscience in particular. It can also be used as an interactive guide to understanding biological neuronal and network structure for those working in the area of artificial neural networks and the cognitive sciences. The tutorials are based upon the GENESIS neural simulation system, which is available at no cost from Caltech (see Appendix A). The following chapters consist of a combination of edited contributions from researchers in computational neuroscience and current users of the system, as well as several chapters which we have written ourselves.