A personal view of the early development of computational neuroscience in the USA
- Department of Neurobiology, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
In the half-century since the seminal Hodgkin–Huxley papers were published, computational neuroscience has become an established discipline, evolving from computer modeling of neurons to attempts to understand the computational functions of the brain. Here, I narrate my experience of the early steps and sense of excitement in this field, with its promise of rapid development, paralleling that of computers.
Keywords:
computational, neuroscience, simulations, Hodgkin–Huxley equations
Citation:
Moore JW (2010) A personal view of the early development of computational neuroscience in the USA. Front. Comput. Neurosci. 4:20. doi: 10.3389/fncom.2010.00020
Received: 22 February 2010;
Paper pending published: 10 March 2010;
Accepted: 13 June 2010;
Published online: 07 July 2010
Edited by:
Nicolas Brunel, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
Reviewed by:
John Rinzel, New York University, USA
Idan Segev, Hebrew University, Israel
Copyright:
© 2010 Moore. This is an open-access article subject to an exclusive license agreement between the authors and the Frontiers Research Foundation, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original authors and source are credited.
*Correspondence:
John W. Moore, Department of Neurobiology, Duke University Medical Center, Box 3209, Durham, NC 27710, USA. e-mail: moore@neuro.duke.edu