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Links Related to Neurocomputing and Theoretical Neuroscience

Updated November 14, 2006

Informational Web Sites

Artificial Life Links - Artificial Life includes anything related to simulating life, from the simulation of cell chemistry to whole societies.

Computational Neuroscience on the World Wide Web - Put together by Jim Perlewitz. It has everything related to university based computational neuroscience.

KurzweilAI - A site covering speculations on the future of machine intelligence and other futurist topics.

Neurocomputing News - My blog covering news and comments related to neurocomputing and related ideas.

Online Research Articles

Intelligence Without Reason - A 1991 paper by Rodney Brooks from MIT giving a broad but not too deep review of all approaches to machine intilligence and in so doing suggesting that all the existing methods fall short of what is needed.

Organizations

International Society of Artificial Life - The most diverse and open group related to theoretical neuroscience.

CNS - Organization for Computational Neuroscience - The group trying to understand realistic neural networks from within the traditional university system.

On Intelligence Forum - Probably the most thoughtful forum discussing biological and artificial intelligence on the web and the only one I visit from time to time.

Reports Related to the Brain and Conscious Perception

Brain Electrodes Conjure Up Ghostly Visions - from "Nature" (Sept. 20, 2006). A report on a finding that stimulating a region of the brain in humans produces the feeling that a "shadow person" is right behind the patient

Flirty Flies Shed Light on Human Sleep and Memory - from LiveScience.com (Sept. 21, 2006). Fruit flies need sleep and they need more sleep after "mental" activities.



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