General useful links: IEEE pdf express: to check if paper is in IEEE format www.ieee.org/pdfexpress Citeseer http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/cs Google scholar http://scholar.google.com John Rylands Library Very informative site: http://home.earthlink.net/~perlewitz/ COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE on the World Wide Web FOR BEGINNERS TO THE FIELD These are general textbooks Christopher M. Bishop: Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition: Oxford Neural Networks: A Comprehensive Foundation, 2nd edition: Simon Haykin: Prentice hall the next 2 books are very good for prospective researchers/ PhD students etc: The seminal (original) papers of NN can be found at this book: Its probably best to search this in the library Neurocomputing (1 and 2) - Foundations of Research, MIT Press Anderson and Rosenfield (editors): MIT Press This is a sort of neural nets encyclopedia: It is best to search in the library: Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks Michael A. Arbib: MIT Press Websites: Google scholar is the best to search: http://scholar.google.com Citeseer is the best place to look for references citations: http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/ FOR MY RESEARCH For all names below, search in google (or google scholar) for more info See citation indexes in Citeseer. List of Books (most of these books have their own book sites, with teaching info) Some of the books might be available online, through John Rylands or otherwise Search for series on the publishers websites In searching in Amazon or Barnes and Noble, its quite good as they have got the categories too, so you can search one book and find related books Barnes and Noble list for comp. neuroscience is quite good. also google it See webpages of people who wrote the books... http://www.brainsrule.com Reviews of neuroscience books Lewis Publishers, Inc (CDROM included) Computational Neuroscience: Realistic Modeling for Experimentalists by Erik De Schutter, Robert C., Ph.D. Cannon, Erik De Schutter Chapman and Hall /CRC Press Computational Neuroscience: A Comprehensive Approach Jianfeng Feng Elsevier Computational Neuroscience: Trends in Research (1998,1999...) James M. Bower (Editor) Prentice Hall An Introduction to Dynamical Systems, Continuous and Discrete R. Clark Robinson Springer Verlag Neural Information Processing: Research and Development. Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing Vol.152 2004. SPRINGER, BERLIN Neurocontrol -- Learning Control Systems Inspired by Neuronal Architectures and Human Problem Solving Strategies, Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, vol. 172, Springer-Verlag, 1992. H. Tolle and E. Ersu Neural Networks for Modelling and Control of Dynamic Systems by Magnus Norgaard, Ole Ravn, Niels K. Poulsen and Lars K. Hansen Modeling and Using Context Third International and Interdisciplinary Conference, CONTEXT, 2001, Dundee, UK, July 27-30, 2001, Proceedings Brain Dynamics: Synchronization and Activity Patterns in Pulse-Coupled Neural Nets with Delays and Noise Hermann Haken, H. Haken Computational Models for Neuroscience: Human Cortical Information Processing Robert Hecht-Nielsen, Thomas McKenna (Editor) Emergent Neural Computational Architectures based on Neuroscience Stefan Wermter, Jim Austin, David Willshaw Sequence Learning: Paradigms, Algorithms, and Applications edited by: Ron Sun and Lee Giles From Computer to Brain by William W. Lytton Also very introductory Addison Wesley Analog VLSI and Neural Systems, by Carver Mead Seminal book Taylor and Francis Cognitive Neuroscience SarahBanich Marie T. Pink, Marie T. Banich, Neil Cohen (Editor) MIT Press / Bradford Books The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences Robert Anton Wilson (Editor), Frank Keil (Editor) Neurocomputing (1 and 2) - Foundations of Research, MIT Press Anderson and Rosenfield (editors) For all the seminal papers related to NN Gateway to Memory: An Introduction to Neural Network Modeling of the Hippocampus and Learning (Issues in Clinical and Cognitive Neuropsychology) by Mark A. Gluck, Catherine E. Myers Computational Explorations in Cognitive Neuroscience: Understanding the Mind by Simulating the Brain Randall C. O'Reilly and Yuko Munakata Principles of Neural Science by Eric R. Kandel, James H. Schwartz, Thomas M. Jessell Comprehensive leading book on neuroscience Frontiers in Cognitive Neuroscience Edited by Stephen M. Kosslyn and Richard A. Andersen Sparse Distributed memory: Pentti Kanerva Seminal book Pulsed Neural Networks, by Wolfgang Maass and Christopher M. Bishop, MIT Press Sparse Distributed Memory, by Pentti Kanerva, MIT Press Very basic book about pulsed NN: covers whole area issues Theoretical Neuroscience by Dayan and Abbott (MIT Press) A comprehensive text, provides a thorough treatment of major modeling concepts in computational neuroscience. Also list of exercises etc Computational; Neuroscience: Schwartz (editor) Is rather old (published 1990) Neurophilosophy: Toward a Unified Science of the Mind-Brain Patricia Smith Churchland, Patricia S. Churchland Neural Codes and Distributed Representations: Foundations of Neural Computation Edited by Laurence Abbott and Terrence J. Sejnowski Computational Neuroscience Series (there are a lot more: see page for details) Spikes: Exploring the Neural Code Fred Rieke, David Warland, Rob de Ruyter van Steveninck and William Bialek Very interesting reading. How is the neural code formed with spikes? Neural Engineering: Computation, Representation, and Dynamics in Neurobiological Systems Chris Eliasmith and Charles H. Anderson Very good and novel approach towards engineering systems with neurons Also nice course with exercises Neural Codes and Distributed Representations: Foundations of Neural Computation Laurence Abbott and Terrence J. Sejnowski (Eds.) Methods in Neuronal Modeling - 2nd Edition From Ions to Networks Christof Koch and Idan Segev (Eds.) More about low level models The Computational Brain Patricia Churchland and Terrence J. Sejnowski Oxford University Press Working Memory. Alan Baddeley NeuroDynamix: Computer Models for Neurophysiology W. Otto Friesen and Jonathon A. Friesen Computational Neuroscience of Vision Edmund T. Rolls, Gustavo Deco Biophysics of Computation: Information Processing in Single Neurons Christof Koch Spikes, Decisions, and Actions - The Dynamical Foundations of Neuroscience Hugh Wilson Great for foundations of dynamical systems built of spiking neurons Neural Networks and Brain Function Edmund T. Rolls and Alessandro Treves. Very good for how different parts of the brain work, and can be modelled by Neural Networks Fundamentals of Computational Neuroscience. Thomas P. Trappenberg Excellent introductory text. Well recommended to all Cambridge University Press Introduction to Theoretical Neurobiology Vol 1/2 Henry C Tuckwell Modeling Brain Function : The World of Attractor Neural Networks by Daniel J. Amit Corticonics : Neural Circuits of the Cerebral Cortex by Moshe Abeles Spiking Neuron Models: Single Neurons, Populations, Plasticity by Wulfram Gerstner and Werner M. Kistler Very detailed and comprehensive indeed. Must read Nature Neuroscience Computational Supplement VV useful for papers to the field MacMillan Publishing Company Neural networks: A comprehensive foundation Simon Haykin Very popular comprehensive introductory book to NN List of Researchers (see students pages / research group pages of top researchers) See editor list of top journals Careful about UK researchers: potential thesis examiners! Klaus Schulten Daniel Amit Arun Jagota Gerstner Edmund Rolls Terrence Sejnowski Peter Andras Timothy Hoiruchy Michale Fee (Bell labs) Jeffrey Hinton David willshaw Jim Austin Igor Alexander Jurgen Smidhurber Simon Thorpe Bard Ermentrout Arbib Tanaka Christof Koch DeLiang Wang Thomas Wennekers http://www.anc.ed.ac.uk/~dcs/: great page for bookmarks ISI highlysighted.com List of journals http://www.faqs.org/faqs/ai-faq/neural-nets/part4/section-2.html Advances in NIPS (proceedings) Annual Reviews Neuroscience Complex systems Neural Network Review Journals of other fields Neural Networks International Journal of Neurocomputing International Journal of Neural Systems Connection Science: Journal of Neural Computing, Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Research International Journal of Neural Networks Neural Computing and Applications JNNS Newsletter (Newsletter of the Japan Neural Network Society) Neural Processing Letters Top in the field (see Jurgen smidburber's page) Neural information processing: letters and reviews Only 6 month wait, terrence sejnowski on editor list Network: computation in neural systems David Willshaw, editor (also simon thorpe etc) Nature (Top but very wide scope) Science (wide scope) Neuroinformatics Journal of Neurophysiology Journal of Neural Engineering Biological Cybernetics Journal of Machine Learning Research Journal of Machine Learning Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience Journal of Neuroscience Journal of Computational Neuroscience Neurocomputing The Behavioral and Brain Sciences Publisher: Cambridge University Press Neural Computing Surveys Published very RARELY in electronic format available on web Neural Processing Letters Letters are shorter aticles than papers, about 8-10 pages, describing recent work Nature reviews neuroscience IEEE Transactions in NN One of the Top for NN See also IEEE special issues esp. Special Issue on "Temporal Coding for Neural Information Processing" Neural computation THE top for all NN, Terrence Sejnowski - Editor in Chief. List of great institutes in the field SantaFe: dynamical systems UCL MIT Cold Spring Harbour Labs HUJI Israel Search neuroscience resources in UK/ Europe: esp. EMERNET is recommended List of annual conferences NIPS (Top) WIRN (Italian conference) organised by SIREN Italy ESANN (European conf: good one) CNS (Neuroscientists: real biological modelling) BICS (eg in stirling) Workshop on Mathematical neuroscience (eg in Edinburgh) IPCAT COSYNE PREP (bottom) Neural coding LATSIS ICCNS ICANNGA CINC TAINN ENNS IEEE International Symposium on Neural Networks MELECON ACDM ICONIP FLAIRS IJCNN (IEEE NNS flagship conference) ICANN (European NN society conference) ICCI AINN IJCAI ICPR (Pattern reco, but apps in memory) IWANN IEEE conference calendar http://www.computer.org/conferences/calendar.htm WSEAS conferences WICNN www.worldses.org World Enformatika Conference, WEC, comprising of AINN conference Neural Engg conferences, A-Life conferences, Robotics, cognition etc ICAPR: for pattern recognition Annual Computational Neuroscience Conference Lots of machine learning and neuroscience conferences Conference CFP lists http://www.ieee-nns.org/conferences/ http://www.dsic.upv.es/users/rfia/cfp.html http://www.elsevier.com/inca/esav/?allntype=CP http://www.loria.fr/~tombre/CFP/maillist.html Most relevant list of journals: http://www.dsi.unifi.it/neural/w3-sites.html List of thesis and where to get them See John Rylands: computer science guide section and ebook resources etc http://www.theses.com/ List of emails/ mailing lists/ discussion groups/ newsgroups/ usenet bionet.neuroscience comp-neuro@neuroinf.org comp.ai.neural-nets comp.theory.dynamic-sys connectionists@cmu.edu http://www.ph.tn.tudelft.nl/PRInfo/ www.neuroinf.org :Neuroinformatics site www.neuroinf.de : Neuroinformatics Portal Pilot Citeseer NeuroWiki IEEE conference calendar Discussions in ORKUT etc WWW virtual library: neuroscience Neuroguide.com http://home.earthlink.net/~perlewitz/ COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE on the World Wide Web List of societies (usually some conferences are organised by societies) CNS: Computational Neuroscience Society IEEE Computational intelligence society IEEE-NNS http://ieee-nns.org/ Japan NN Society EMERNET Project finished in 2001: yet site is very useful http://www.his.sunderland.ac.uk/emernet/Project_frame.html N Euro Net http://www.kcl.ac.uk/neuronet/orgs/index.html Federation of European Neuroscience societies http://fens.mdc-berlin.de/ CNS/ neuroinformatics in Europe http://www.hirnforschung.net/cneuro/ Cognitive Neuroscience Society Ireland AI societies BNA and BCS and ACM Natural computing applications forum UK: http://www.ncaf.co.uk/index.htm International Neural networks society http://www.inns.org/ The Association of Neuroscience Departments and Programs (ANDP) http://andp.physlog.uiowa.edu/ List of simulators NEURON SpikeNNS GENESIS NeuroML MATLAB toolbox List of Workshops http://home.earthlink.net/~perlewitz/education.html Telluride Neuromorphic Engineering workshop Search google for many 100's more Go to seminar series gatsby computational neuroscience unit Links to study material for computational neuroscience or neural engineering courses Search in google for exercises, syllabus, textbooks etc http://home.earthlink.net/~perlewitz/education.html http://www.math.pitt.edu/~bard/classes/compneuro/ http://www.glue.umd.edu/~ttroyer/teaching/NACS643/NACS643.html http://www.genesis-sim.org/GENESIS/cnsweb/cnslecs.html http://www.neuro-it.net/ Japanese list of NN journals http://www.brain.riken.jp/labs/mns/amari/NNLinks/NN_Journals.html Useful site about journals etc http://www.faqs.org/faqs/ai-faq/neural-nets/part4/section-2.html http://www.enm.bris.ac.uk/research/neural/journals.html http://www.dsi.unifi.it/neural/w3-sites.html http://www.cis.hut.fi/~jari/research.html Some useful tutorials: Workshops on NN Telluride Workshop Journal clubs MIT (journalclub.mit.edu) UCL (gatsby computational neuroscience unit) http://www.psychology.mcmaster.ca/beckerlab/journalclub/ Search in google for more comp. neuro. JC's and read those journal articles yourself List of fields Neurodynamics Associative memory Nonlinear Dynamical systems Computational neuroscience / Neuroscience/ Neurobiology Brain Theory Cognitive neuroscience Neural engineering Neural networks Neurophysiology / Physiology Neural modelling/ modelling Memory Cognitive Science Artificial Intelligence A Life Brain Plasticity Information Theory Biophysics Biological Cybernetics+Biological: Command not found. Neuroinformatics Neurocomputing Neurodynamics Time Series Prediction Complex systems General useful links http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/3765/neural.html http://canavar.ceng.metu.edu.tr/~emre/literature/Literature_On_Neural_Networks.html#scot Grand Challenge proposal mailing list: http://archives.nesc.ac.uk/gcproposal-5/