Connectionists: New Book: Introducing Computation to Neuroscience – Selected Papers of George Gerstein

[Dr. David Goyer]

Prof. Sonja Grün (INM-6, INM-10 & IAS-6; Jülich Research Center), 
together with colleagues Profs. A. Aertsen, P.E. Maldonado and G. Palm, 
recently published the book “Introducing Computation to Neuroscience – 
Selected Papers of George Gerstein 
<https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-87447-6>”.

George Gersteinhad his roots in physics and was known for his long-term 
commitmentto transformingneuroscience intoa field ofmore rigorous 
science, like physics was at the time. With this, hewas miles ahead of 
the field, consistently striving for quantitative analyses, mechanistic 
models, and conceptual clarity. Eventually, he pioneeredwhat we now know 
asComputational Neuroscience-many years before the term was coined. But 
the overarching goal of George Gerstein’s research was always to 
understand the functional organization of neuronal networks in the brain.

Prof. Grün and the editors nowhave compiled a selection of George 
Gerstein’s many seminalexperimental, theoretical andcomputational 
contributions to neuroscience into a single, comprehensive volume. They 
also provide a fresh view on the subjects of his work, as several of 
George Gerstein’s former students and collaborators kindly contributed 
introductionsto various chapters.This does not onlyframethe papers in 
their historical and present context, it alsoaddsthepersonal touch of 
their involvement in generating the papersand gives a glimpse into lab 
life. The book itselfis organized intoa series of chapters with 
differentsubjects, each one containing reprintsof George Gerstein’s 
papersin chronological order. Thereby, each of these chapters traces the 
developmentof George Gerstein’s seminal contributions to the 
Neurosciences, be it in the domain of neuron and network modeling or in 
the area of neuronal data analysis techniques.

In the words of the editors: "/We hope that, taken together, these 
various Chapters and their Introductions will help the reader appreciate 
how much our current thinking on brain function owes to George 
Gerstein’s research and the insights gained from it. George was not only 
an innovative thinker in theory, experiment and analysis methodology, he 
also inspired by his mode of thinking science. Thus, in a way, this book 
is both a product of this inspiration and a tribute to it./"

-- 
Dr. David Goyer
Scientific Coordinator

Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-6)
Computational and Systems Neuroscience &
Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS-6)
Theoretical Neuroscience
Jülich Research Centre and JARA Jülich
Germany
phone: +49-1756402993
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