Special issue of Biosystems on Neural Coding

[Guido.Bugmann xtn 2566]

Dear Connectionists,

selected papers of the 4th Workshop on Neural Coding (NCWS'2001)
have appeared in a special issue of Biosystems.
http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/biosystems

Hereafter is the table of contents.

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Table of Contents for BioSystems
Volume 67, Issue 1-3, October - December 2002 

Foreword			
	Roman Borisyuk and Guido Bugmann 			1-2 

Oscillatory activity in the neural networks of spiking elements 
	Roman Borisyuk						3-16

Synaptic depression increases the selectivity of a neuron to its preferred
pattern and binarizes the neural code 
	Guido Bugmann						17-25

Input-output behaviour of a model neuron with alternating drift 
	Aniello Buonocore, Antonio Di Crescenzo and Elvira Di Nardo 	27-34

A neuronal modeling paradigm in the presence of refractoriness 
	A. Buonocore, V. Giorno, A.G. Nobile and L.M. Ricciardi	35-43

Synchronization in a network of fast-spiking interneurons 
Angelo Di Garbo, Michele Barbi and Santi Chillemi		45-53

Quantification of sensory information transmission using timeseries
decorrelation techniques 
	Marcus Eger and Reinhard Eckhorn			55-65

A modelling study on discrimination tasks 
	Jianfeng Feng and Feng Liu				67-73

Effects of random jumps on a very simple neuronal diffusion model 
	Maria Teresa Giraudo, Laura Sacerdote and Roberta Sirovich	75-83

Temporal uncertainty in reading the neural code (proportional noise) 
	Christopher M. Harris					85-94

Resonance and selective communication via bursts in neurons having
subthreshold oscillations 
	Eugene M. Izhikevich					95-102

Object selection by an oscillatory neural network 
	Yakov Kazanovich and Roman Borisyuk			103-111

Optimality in the encoding/decoding relations of motoneurones and muscle
units 
	Andre F. Kohn and Marcus F. Vieira			113-119

Coding of periodic pulse stimulation in chemoreceptors 
	Vlastimil Krivan, Petr Lansky and Jean Pierre Rospars	121-128

A new bursting model of CA3 pyramidal cell physiology suggests multiple
locations for spike initiation 
	Maciej T. Lazarewicz, Michele Migliore and Giorgio A. Ascoli  129-137

Firing coincidences between neighboring retinal ganglion cells: inside
information or epiphenomenon? 
	Michael W. Levine, Kristen Castaldo and M. Baris Kasapoglu	139-146

Noise-induced divisive gain control in neuron models 
	Andr Longtin, Brent Doiron and Adi R. Bulsara		147-156

Electrophysiological correlates of synchronous neural activity and
attention: a short review 
	Ernst Niebur						157-166

On the location-specific positional and extra-positional information in
the discharge of rat hippocampal cells 
	A.V. Olypher, P. Lansky and A.A. Fenton			167-175

A critical assessment of different measures of the information carried by
correlated neuronal firing 
	Stefano Panzeri, Gianni Pola, Filippo Petroni, Malcolm P. Young
	and Rasmus S. Petersen					177-185

The role of individual spikes and spike patterns in population coding of
stimulus location in rat somatosensory cortex 
	Rasmus S. Petersen, Stefano Panzeri and Mathew E. Diamond 187-193

Isotropic sequence order learning using a novel linear algorithm in a
closed loop behavioural system 
	B. Porr and P. Woergoetter				195-202

Modelling spatiotemporal olfactory data in two steps: from binary to
Hodgkin-Huxley neurones 
	Brigitte Quenet, Rmi Dubois, Sevan Sirapian, Grard Dreyfus and
	David Horn						203-211

Interspike interval statistics in the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck neuronal model
with signal-dependent noise 
	Laura Sacerdote and Petr Lansky				213-219

Spike independency in feed-forward networks 
	Yutaka Sakai						221-227

Why do olfactory neurons have unspecific receptive fields? 
	Manuel A. Snchez-Montas and Tim C. Pearce		229-238

Rapid adaptation and efficient coding 
	Lars Schwabe and Klaus Obermayer			239-244

A unifying theory on the relationship between spike trains, EEG, and ERP
based on the noise shaping/predictive neural coding hypothesis 
	Jonghan Shin						245-257

Recording site dependence of the neuronal spiking statistics 
	Shigeru Shinomoto, Yutaka Sakai and Hiroshi Ohno	259-263

Visualisation of synchronous firing in multi-dimensional spike trains 
	L. Stuart, M. Walter and R. Borisyuk			265-279

Study of synaptic plasticity via random graphs 
	Tatyana S. Turova					281-286

Stochastic fluctuations of the synaptic function 
	Francesco Ventriglia and Vito Di Maio			287-294

Model based decoding of spike trains 
	Matthew C. Wiener and Barry J. Richmond			295-300

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 Dr. Guido Bugmann
 Senior Research Fellow
 Centre for Neural and Adaptive Systems
 School of Computing
 University of Plymouth
 Plymouth PL4 8AA
 United Kingdom
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