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The present collection of papers forms the Proceedings of the First
Meeting on Brain Theory, held October 1-4, 1984 at the
International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy. The
Meeting was organized with the aim of bringing together brain
theorists who are willing to put their own research in the
perspective of the general development of neuroscience. Such a
meeting was considered necessary since the explosion of experi
mental work in neuroscience during the last decades has not been
accompanied by an adequate development on the theoretical side. The
intensity of the discussions during the Meeting is prob ably
reflected best in the report of the organizers, reprinted here
following the Preface. During the Meeting it was decided that a
workshop of this kind should be repeated at regular intervals of
approximately 2 years. The International Centre for Theoretical
Physics in Trieste has kindly agreed to act as host for future
meetings. The present Meeting was supported by grants from the In
ternational Centre for Theoretical Physics and the International
School for Advanced Studies in Trieste, IBM-Germany through the
"Stifterverband fur die Deutsche Wissenschaft" and the Max
Planck-Institute for Biological Cybernetics.
There is a tradition of theoretical brain science which started in
the forties (Wiener, McCulloch, Turing, Craik, Hebb). This was
continued by a small number of people without interruption up to
the present. It has definitely provided main guiding lines for
brain science, the devel opment of which has been spectacular in
the last decades. However, within the bulk of experimental
neuroscience, the theoreticians some times had a difficult stand,
since it was felt that the times were not ripe yet and the methods
not yet available for a development of a true theoretical
speciality in this field. Thus theory remained in the hands of a
fairly small club which recruited its members from theoretical
physicists, mathematicians and some experimentalists with
amateurish theoretical leanings. The boom of approaches which go by
the name of 'computational neuroscience', 'neuronal networks',
'associative mem ory', 'spinglass theory', 'parallel processing'
etc. should not blind one for the fact that the group of people
professionally interested in real istic models of brain function up
to the present date remains rather small and suffers from a lack of
professional organization. It was against this background that we
decided to organize a meet ing on Theoretical Brain Science. The
meeting was held April 18 - 20, 1990 and took place at Schloss
Ringberg, West-Germany, a facility sponsored by the
Max-Planck-Society.
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.
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