Description
Dr. Gabbiani is Professor in the Department of Neuroscience at the Baylor College of Medicine. Having received the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Foundation research prize in 2012, he just completed a one-year cross appointment at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology in Martinsried and has international experience in the computational neuroscience field. Together with Dr. Cox, Dr. Gabbiani co-authored the first edition of this bestselling book in 2010. 1. Introduction 2. The Passive Isopotential Cell 3. Differential Equations 4. The Active Isopotential Cell 5. The Quasi-Active Isopotential Cell 6. The Passive Cable 7. Fourier Series and Transforms 8. The Passive Dendritic Tree 9. The Active Dendritic Tree 10. Extracellular Potential 11. Reduced Single Neuron Models 12. Probability and Random Variables 13. Synaptic Transmission and Quantal Release 14. Neuronal Calcium SignalingNeuronal Calcium Signaling 15. Neurovascular Coupling, the BOLD Signal and MRI 16. The Singular Value Decomposition and ApplicationsThe Singular Value Decomposition and Applications 17. Quantification of Spike Train Variability 18. Stochastic Processes 19. Membrane NoiseMembrane Noise 20. Power and Cross-Spectra 21. Natural Light Signals and Phototransduction 22. Firing Rate Codes and Early Vision 23. Models of Simple and Complex Cells 24. Models of Motion Detection 25. Stochastic Estimation Theory 26. Reverse-Correlation and Spike Train Decoding 27. Signal Detection Theory 28. Relating Neuronal Responses and Psychophysics 29. Population CodesPopulation Codes 30. Neuronal Networks 31. Solutions to Exercises
