brain simulations

Neural Engineering: Building large-scale cognitive models of the brain

The Neural Engineering Framework has been used to create a wide variety of biologically realistic brain simulations that are capable of performing simple cognitive tasks (remembering a list, counting, etc.). This includes the largest existing functional brain model. This talk will describe this method, and show some examples of using it to take high-level cognitive algorithms and convert them into a neural network that implements those algorithms. Overall, this approach gives us new ways of thinking about how the brain works and what sorts of algorithms it is capable of performing.

Whole-brain simulations of wakefulness, slow-wave sleep, and anesthetized states in the macaque monkey