This book brings together a selection of papers by George Gerstein, representing his long-term endeavor of making neuroscience into a more rigorous science inspired by physics, where he had his roots. Professor Gerstein was many years ahead of the field, consistently striving for quantitative analyses, mechanistic models, and conceptual clarity. In doing so, he pioneered Computational Neuroscience, many years before the term itself was born. The overarching goal of George Gerstein’s research was to understand the functional organization of neuronal networks in the brain. The editors of this book have compiled a selection of George Gerstein’s many seminal contributions to neuroscience--be they experimental, theoretical or computational--into a single, comprehensive volume .The aim is to provide readers with a fresh introduction of these various concepts in the original literature. The volume is organized in a series of chapters by subject, ordered in time, each one containing one or more of George Gerstein’s papers.
Author(s): Ad Aertsen, Sonja Grün, Pedro E. Maldonado, Günther Palm
Series: Springer Series in Computational Neuroscience
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 554
City: Cham
Preface
Acknowledgment
References
Contents
About the Editors
1 Leaky Integrate and Fire Neurons
RC Circuits to Model Neurons and Reward Monkeys
Eberhard Fetz
References
2 Neuronal Spike Trains and Stochastic Point Processes
Why George Gerstein's Papers are Still Worth Reading
Stefan Rotter
References
3 Visual Functions of Primate Inferior Temporal Cortex
Setting up a Primate Neurophysiology Lab
Charles G. Gross
References
4 Plasticity of Neuronal Interactions
Early Days in the Gerstein Lab: Neuronal Plasticity in 1, 2, and 3 Dimensions
William B. Kristan Jr.
References
5 Repeating Patterns in Spike Trains and Functional Groups of Neurons
Designing Methods for Analyzing Single- and Multi-NeuronRecordings
Judith E. Dayhoff
References
6 Application of the Gravitational Clustering Method
Neuronal Assemblies in the Respiratory System
Bruce Lindsey
References
7 Dynamics of Neuronal Interactions
Interactions Between Neurons and with George Gerstein
Ad Aertsen
References
8 Significance of Spike Train Correlations
George's Stay in Tübingen: Interactions Between Neurons and with Some Untypical Germans
Günther Palm
References
9 Spatio-Temporal Spike Patterns
Searching for Significance of Repeating Spike Patterns
Moshe Abeles
References
10 Cross-Correlations of Unresolved Multi-Neuron Recordings
Does Cross-Correlation Have a Unique Interpretation?
Purvis Bedenbaugh
References
11 Plasticity in the Receptive Fields by Microstimulation
My Experience Working with George L. Gerstein
Pedro E. Maldonado
References
12 Plasticity of Receptive Fields in Auditory Cortex
Auditory Experiments and Modeling
Michael A. Kisley
References
13 Improvements in the Analysis of Neuronal Interactions
Thinking About Analysis Methods with George in Philadelphia, Cambridge, and Newcastle
Stuart N. Baker
References
14 Higher-Order Correlations and Synfire Chains
Ongoing Research Initiated by George
Sonja Grün and Markus Diesmann
References
Nencki Award for George L. Gerstein
Epilogue
George Gerstein: Obituary (1933–2018)
Ad Aertsen and Moshe Abeles
George Gerstein as a Neuroscientist
George Gerstein as a Teacher
George Gerstein as a Person
George Gerstein as a Colleague and Friend
Reference
Publications of George L. Gerstein
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