CSSS 2006 Computational Neuroscience

Lecturer: Bruno Olshausen



Resources (an evolving list):

Books

  • Introduction to the Theory of Neural Compuation by Hertz, Krogh and Palmer. Santa Fe Institute/Addison-Wesley
  • Large Scale Neuronal Theories of the Brain Ed. by Koch and Davis. MIT Press
  • Theoretical Neuroscience by Dayan and Abbott. MIT Press

    Papers:

  • Field DJ (1987) Relations between the statistics of natural images and the response properties of cortical cells, J Opt Soc Am, A, 4, 2379-2394.
  • Field DJ (1994) What is the goal of sensory coding? Neural Computation, 6, 559-601.
  • Nakayama K., He Z. J., Shimojo S. (1995) Visual surface representation: a critical link between lower-level and higher level vision. In: An Invitation to Cognitive Science. S.M. Kosslyn, D.N. Osherson, Eds., M.I.T. Press, p. 1-70.
  • Olshausen B. A., Field D. J. (1996). Emergence of simple-cell receptive field properties by learning a sparse code for natural images. Nature, 381, 607-609. PDF
  • Olshausen B. A. (2003) Principles of image representation in visual cortex. In: The Visual Neurosciences, L.M. Chalupa, J.S. Werner, Eds. MIT Press. pp. 1603-15. PDF
  • Mumford D. (1994) Neuronal architectures for pattern-theoretic problems. In: Large Scale Neuronal Theories of the Brain. Koch C, Davis, JL, eds., MIT Press, pp. 125-152.
  • Lee T. S., Mumford D. (2003) Hierarchical Bayesian inference in the visual cortex. J Opt Soc Am A, 20, 1434-48. PDF
  • Hyvarinen A, Hurri J, Vayrynen J (2003) Bubbles: a unifying framework for low-level statistical properties of natural image sequences. J. Opt. Soc. Am. A, 20. PDF
  • Karklin Y, Lewicki MS (2003) Learning higher-order structures in natural images. Network: Computation in Neural Systems, 14, 483-499. PDF
  • Olshausen BA, Field DJ (2005) How close are we to understanding V1? Neural Computation, 17, 1665-1699. PDF
  • Anderson CH, Van Essen DC (1995) Information Processing Strategies and Pathways in the Primate Visual System. In: An Introduction to Neural and Electronic Networks, 2nd ed., 1995, Academic Press, Zornetzer et al., eds., pp. 45-76 PDF
  • Hafting T, Fyhn M, Molden S, Moser MB, Moser EI (2005) Microstructure of a spatial map in the entorhinal cortex. Vol 436|11 PDF