Simulation of networks of spiking neurons: A review of tools and strategies

Journal of Computational Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 349-398

  Brette, Romain ^a   Rudolph, Michelle ^b   Carnevale, Ted ^c   Hines, Michael ^c   Beeman, David ^d   Bower, James M ^e   Diesmann, Markus ^f,g   Morrison, Abigail ^g   Goodman, Philip H ^h   Harris, Frederick C ^h   Zirpe, Milind ^h   Natschläger, Thomas ⁱ   Pecevski, Dejan ^j   Ermentrout, Bard ^k   Djurfeldt, Mikael ^l   Lansner, Anders ^l   Rochel, Olivier ^m   Vieville, Thierry ⁿ   Muller, Eilif ^o   Davison, Andrew P ^b   El Boustani, Sami ^b   Destexhe, Alain ^b   more..

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^g RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^h UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

ⁱ SOFTWARE COMPETENCE CENTER HAGENBERG   (Austria)

^j GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^k UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^l ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^m UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

ⁿ INRIA   (France)

^o UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

more..

Author keywords

Clock driven; Event driven; Integration strategies; Simulation tools; Spiking neural networks

Indexed keywords

CLOCKS; INTEGRATION; NEURAL NETWORKS;

CLOCK-DRIVEN; EVENT-DRIVEN; INTEGRATION STRATEGY; NEURAL-NETWORKS; SIMULATION ALGORITHMS; SIMULATION ENVIRONMENT; SIMULATION STRATEGIES; SIMULATION TOOL; SPIKING NEURAL NETWORK; SPIKING NEURONES;

SIMULATORS;

ACCURACY; ACTION POTENTIAL; ALGORITHM; BIOPHYSICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SYSTEM; HODGKIN HUXLEY EQUATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; KERNEL METHOD; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MEMORY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROSCIENCE; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REVIEW; SIMULATION; SIMULATOR; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 35248866865     PISSN: 09295313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10827-007-0038-6     Document Type: Review

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