ModelDB: Making Models Publicly Accessible to Support Computational Neuroscience

ModelDB: making models publicly accessible to support computational neuroscience.

Computational neuroscience as a scientific discipline must provide for the ready testing of published models by others in the field. Unfortunately this pre-requisite has rarely been fulfilled. When exact reproduction of a model simulation is achieved, it is often only after a long and difficult process. Too often, missing or typographically incorrect equations and parameter values have made it ...

ModelDB in computational neuroscience education - a research tool as interactive educational media.

ModelDB's mission is to link computational models and publications, supporting the field of computational neuroscience (CNS) by making model source code readily available. It is continually expanding, and currently contains source code for more than 300 models that cover more than 41 topics. Investigators, educators, and students can use it to obtain working models that reproduce published resu...

Brain literate: making neuroscience accessible to a wider audience of undergraduates.

The ability to critically evaluate neuroscientific findings is a skill that is rapidly becoming important in non-science professions. As neuroscience research is increasingly being used in law, business, education, and politics, it becomes imperative to educate future leaders in all areas of society about the brain. Undergraduate general education courses are an ideal way to expose students to ...

Introduction to Computational Neuroscience

One dimensional Fokker-Planck reduced dynamics of decision making models in Computational Neuroscience

We study a Fokker-Planck equation modelling the firing rates of two interacting populations of neurons. This model arises in computational neuroscience when considering, for example, bistable visual perception problems and is based on a stochastic Wilson-Cowan system of differential equations. In a previous work, the slow-fast behavior of the solution of the Fokker-Planck equation has been high...