Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 8: Proceedings of the 1995 Conference(A Bradford Book)

The past decade since the mid-1980s has seen greatly increased interaction between theoretical work in neuroscience, cognitive science and information processing, and experimental work requiring sophisticated computational modelling. The 152 contributions in "NIPS 8" focus on a wide variety of algorithms and architectures for both supervised and unsupervised learning. They are divided into nine parts: cognitive science, neuroscience, theory, algorithms and architectures, implementations, speech and signal processing, vision, applications, and control. Chapters describe how neuroscientists and cognitive scientists use computational models of neural systems to test hypotheses and generate predictions to guide their work. This work includes models of how networks in the owl brainstem could be trained for complex localization function, how cellular activity may underlie rat navigation, how cholinergic modulation may regulate cortical reorganization, and how damage to parietal cortex may result in neglect. Additional work concerns development of theoretical techniques important for understanding the dynamics of neural systems, including formation of cortical maps, analysis of recurrent networks, and analysis of self-supervised learning. Chapters also describe how engineers and computer scientists have approached problems of pattern recognition or speech recognition using computational architectures inspired by the interaction of populations of neurons within the brain. Examples are new neural network models that have been applied to classical problems, including handwritten character recognition and object recognition, and exciting new work that focuses on building electronic hardware modelled after neural systems.

Table of Contents:
Part 1 Cognitive science. Part 2 Neuroscience. Part 3 Theory. Part 4 Algorithms and architectures. Part 5 Implementations. Part 6 Speech and signal processing. Part 7 Vision. Part 8 Applications. Part 9 Control.

About the Author :
Michael C. Mozer is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and the Institute of Cognitive Science at the University of Colorado, Boulder. In 1990 he received the Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation. Michael E. Hasselmo is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Computational Neurophysiology Laboratory at Boston University, where he is also a faculty member in the Center for Memory and Brain and the Program in Neuroscience and principal investigator on grants from the National Institute of Mental Health and the Office of Naval Research.