Beschreibung
InhaltsangabeFrom the contents Basic Experimental Facts and Theoretical Tools.- Introduction.- The Neuron-Building Block of the Brain.- Neuronal Cooperativity.- Spikes, Phases, Noise: How to Describe them Mathematically? We Learn a Few Tricks and Some Important Concepts.- Spiking in Neural Nets.- The Lighthouse Model. Two Coupled Neurons.- The Lighthouse Model. Many Coupled Neurons.- Integrate and Fire Models (IFM).- Many Neurons, General Case, Connection with Integrate and Fire Model.- Phase Locking, Coordination and Spatio-Temporal Patterns.- Phase Locking via Sinusoidal Couplings.- Pulse-Averaged Equations.- Conclusion.- The Single Neuron.- Conclusion and Outlook.- References.