General links
- AI Topics (AAAI)
- A fun and interesting site with lots of info on the many different topics in AI research.
- The Man Who Sold His Brain
- !!! >;}~
- The Vain Brain
- ‘[D]on't feel angry with your brain for shielding you from the truth. There is in fact a category of people who get unusually close to the truth about themselves and the world. Their self-perceptions are more balanced, they assign responsibility for success and failure more even-handedly, and their predictions for the future are more realistic. They are the clinically depressed.’ Clearly ignorance really is bliss: pass the Prozac, doctor!
Talks & Meetings
This gives details of meetings/talks in which I or friends have been/will be involved in. In chronological order (most recent first)...
- Complexity and Criticality in Networks (Alicante, 2003)
- Presentations from a workshop at the annual Computational Neuroscience (CNS) meeting. The slide show from my talk is available here.
- Per Learning (Santa Fe, 2002)
- Details of a talk on brain modelling given at the Santa Fe Institute by Dante Chialvo as part of the meeting Collective Cognition: Mathematical Foundations of Distributed Intelligence.
People
- Stefan Bornholdt
- Stefan has done some fun stuff on neural networks (some of his papers are listed on this site), but also a much wider range of work on biophysics, networks and econophysics.
- Dante Chialvo
- The inventor, with Per Bak, of one of the neural network models I have used in my own research, and an all-round excellent person, Dante trained as a medical doctor and his subsequent research career spans an extremely wide range of fun and fascinating biological topics.
- Álvaro Corral
- Álvaro has done some fun work on systems of coupled integrate-and-fire oscillators (IFOs), relating them to earlier models of self-organized criticality.
- Teuvo Kohonen
- The inventor of the Self-Organising Map (SOM); one of the most significant figures in neural computing research.
Research Groups
There are a great many different research groups investigating biological and artificial neural systems of one sort or another, so in the near future I may prepare a separate page for these links, complete with comments on the different groups. For now, here are some of the groups whose work has interested me...
- Birmingham University Cognition and Affect Project
- (Birmingham, UK)
- Caltech Cognitive & Neural Systems Group
- (Pasadena, CA)
- Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit
- (London, UK)
- Helsinki University of Technology Neural Networks Research Centre
- (Helsinki, Finland)
- IBM Massively Distributed Systems R&D Group
- (various locations)
- IMEDEA Cross-Disciplinary Physics Department
- (Palma de Mallorca, Spain)
- Imperial College Intelligent Interactive Systems Group
- (London, UK)
- Kungl Tekniska Högskolan (Royal Institute of Technology) Studies of Artificial Neural Systems (SANS)
- (Stockholm, Sweden)
- Nederlands Instituut voor Hersenonderzoek (Netherlands Institute of Brain Research)
- (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
- NIMH Unit of Neural Network Physiology (NNP)
- (Washington, DC)
- Pain & Qualia Lab, Northwestern University
- (Chicago, IL)
- University of Plymouth Centre for Neural and Adaptive Systems (CNAS)
- (Plymouth, UK)
- The Santa Fe Institute
- (Santa Fe, NM)
- SISSA Cognitive Neuroscience Sector
SISSA Neurobiology Sector - (Trieste, Italy)
- Tel-Aviv University Computational Neuroscience Group
- (Tel-Aviv, Israel)
- UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
- (London, UK)
- UMBC AgentWeb (Intelligent Software Agents)
- (Baltimore, MD)
- University of Zurich Institute of Neuroinformatics (INI)
- (Zurich, Switzerland)
Organisations
- American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
- International Brain Research Organisation (IBRO)
- International Neural Network Society (INNS)
- International Society of Artificial Life
- Not about neural systems exactly, but I think artificial life research is an important field with much to contribute to the understanding of AI and the brain, particularly when investigating embodied agent systems.
- Society for Neuroscience
Journals
This is by no means an exhaustive list; there are so many different journals publishing results that are relevant or related to the study of neural systems of one sort or another that it would probably take half a lifetime to list them all. These are a few that I have found useful or been recommended, in alphabetical order. Bear in mind that many of these journals will require a subscription in order to access the text of articles.
- Annual Review of Neuroscience
- arXiv.org
- Not a journal, but an e-print archive. Fantastically useful! The archives cond-mat, physics, nlin, cs and q-bio all contain useful material.
- BioSystems (ScienceDirect)
- BMC Neuroscience
- Open access!
- European Journal of Neuroscience
- European Physical Journal B
- Europhysics Letters
- International Journal of Neural Systems
- Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
- Journal of Neural Engineering
- Journal of Neuroscience
- Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General
- Nature
- Nature Neuroscience
- Nature Reviews Neuroscience
- Network: Computation in Neural Systems
- Neural Computation
- Neural Networks (ScienceDirect)
- Neural Processing Letters
- Neurocomputing (ScienceDirect)
- Neuron
- Neuroscience (IBRO)
Neuroscience (ScienceDirect) - Physica A (ScienceDirect)
- Physical Review E
- Physical Review Letters
- PLoS Biology
- Open-access!
- PLoS Computational Biology
- Open-access!
- Science
- Trends in Cognitive Sciences
- Trends in Neurosciences