computational neuroscience Flashcards
1
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levels of models
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interpretive
mechanistic
descriptive
2
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what are interpretive models?
A
why nervous system or phenomenom operate that way
3
Q
what are mechanistic models?
A
address how brain/nervous sytem operates on basis of known anatomy/physiology/circuitry
4
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what are descriptive models?
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describes what neurons and neural circuits do
5
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example of descriptive models
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cosine tuning
6
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examples of mechanistic models
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hodgkin and huxley model
7
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examples of interpretive model
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sparse coding
