What is computational neuroscience?
- What is computational neuroscience? (XXXVI) Codes and processes
- What is computational neuroscience? (XXXV) Metaphors as morphisms
- What is computational neuroscience? (XXXIV) Is the brain a computer (2)
- What is computational neuroscience? (XXXIII) The interactivist model of cognition
- What is computational neuroscience? (XXXII) The problem of biological measurement (2)
- What is computational neuroscience? (XXXI) The problem of biological measurement (1)
- What is computational neuroscience? (XXX) Is the brain a computer?
- What is computational neuroscience? (XXIX) The free energy principle
- What is computational neuroscience? (XXVIII)The Bayesian brain
- What is computational neuroscience? (XXVII) The paradox of the efficient code and the neural Tower of Babel
- What is computational neuroscience? (XXVI) Is optimization a good metaphor of evolution?
- What is computational neuroscience (XXV) - Are there biological models in computational neuroscience?
- What is computational neuroscience? (XXIV) - The magic of Darwin
- What is computational neuroscience? (XXIII) On optimality principles in neuroscience
- What is computational neuroscience? (XXII) The whole is greater than the sum of its parts
- What is computational neuroscience? (XXI) Lewis Carroll and Norbert Wiener on detailed models
- What is computational neuroscience? (XX) What is a realistic model?
- What is computational neuroscience? (XIX) Does the brain process information?
- What is computational neuroscience? (XVIII) Representational approaches in computational neuroscience
- What is computational neuroscience? (XVII) What is wrong with computational neuroscience?
- What is computational neuroscience? (XVI) What is an explanation?
- What is computational neuroscience? (XV) Feynman and birds
- What is computational neuroscience? (XIV) Analysis and synthesis
- What is computational neuroscience? (XIII) Making new theories
- What is computational neuroscience? (XII) Why do scientists disagree?
- What is computational neuroscience? (XI) Reductionism
- What is computational neuroscience? (X) Reverse engineering the brain
- What is computational neuroscience? (IX) The epistemological status of simulations
- What is computational neuroscience? (VIII) Technical development and observations
- What is computational neuroscience? (VII) Incommensurability and relativism
- What is computational neuroscience? (VI) Deduction, induction, counter-induction
- What is computational neuroscience? (V) A side note on Paul Feyerabend
- What is computational neuroscience? (IV) Should theories explain the data?
- What is computational neuroscience? (III) The different kinds of theories in computational neuroscience
- What is computational neuroscience? (II) What is theory good for?
- What is computational neuroscience? (I) Definitions and the data-driven approach
What is sound?
- Some propositions for future spatial hearing research (III) - The coding problem
- Some propositions for future spatial hearing research (II) - Tuning curves
- Some propositions for future spatial hearing research (I) – The ecological situation and the computational problem
- What is sound? (XVI) On the spatial character of tones
- What is sound? (XV) Footsteps and head scratching
- What is sound? (XIV) Are there unnatural sounds?
- What is sound? (XIII) Loudness constancy
- What is sound? (XII) Unnatural binaural sounds
- What is sound? (XI) What is loudness?
- What is sound? (X) What is loudness?
- What is sound? (IX) Sound localization and vision
- What is sound? (VIII) Sounds: objects or events?
- What is sound? (VII) The phenomenology of pitch
- What is sound? (VI) Sounds inside the head
- What is sound? (V) The structure of pitch
- What is sound? (IV) Ecological ontology of sounds
- What is sound? (III) Spatial hearing
- What is sound? (II) Sensorimotor contingencies
- What is sound? (I) Hearing vs. seeing
Neural coding
- What is computational neuroscience? (XXXV) Metaphors as morphisms
- Is the coding metaphor relevant for the genome?
- What is computational neuroscience? (XXXI) The problem of biological measurement (1)
- What is computational neuroscience? (XXVIII)The Bayesian brain
- A brief critique of predictive coding
- What is computational neuroscience? (XXVII) The paradox of the efficient code and the neural Tower of Babel
- Neural correlates of perception (what's wrong with them)
- Why do neurons spike?
- Notes on consciousness. (V) 4 key questions about consciousness and the mind-body problem
- Notes on consciousness. (IV) The phenomenal content of neural activity
- Why does a constant stimulus feel constant? (I)
- The challenge of retrograde amnesia to theories of memory
- Rate vs. timing (XXI) Rate coding in motor control
- Subjective physics
- What is computational neuroscience? (XIX) Does the brain process information?
- What is computational neuroscience? (XVIII) Representational approaches in computational neuroscience
- Neural coding and the invariance problem
- What does it mean to represent a relation?
- Information about what?
- Complex representations and representations of complex things
- On the notion of information in neuroscience
- Rate vs. timing (XIV) The neural "code"
- "The brain uses all available information"
Rate vs. timing
- Why do neurons spike?
- Rate vs. timing (XXII) What Robert Rosen would say about rates and spikes
- Rate vs. timing (XXI) Rate coding in motor control
- Rate vs. timing (XX) Flavors of spike-based theories (6) Predictive coding and spike-based inference
- Rate vs. timing (XIX) Spike timing precision and sparse coding
- Rate vs. timing (XVIII) Spiking as analog-digital conversion: the evolutionary argument
- Rate vs. timing (XVII) Analog vs. digital
- Rate vs. timing (XVI) Flavors of spike-based theories (5) Rank order coding
- Rate vs. timing (XV) Flavors of spike-based theories (4) Synchrony as a sensory invariant
- Rate vs. timing (XIV) The neural "code"
- Rate vs. timing (XIII) Flavors of spike-based theories (3) Polychronization
- Rate vs. timing (XII) Flavors of spike-based theories (2) Binding by synchrony
- Rate vs. timing (XI) Flavors of spike-based theories (1) Synfire chains
- Rate vs. timing (X) Rate theories in spiking network models
- Rate vs. timing (IX) The fluctuation-driven regime and the Softky-Shadlen debate
- Rate vs. timing (VIII) A summary of arguments and evidence
- Rate vs. timing (VII) Marr's levels of analysis
- Rate vs. timing (VI) Synaptic unreliability
- Rate vs. timing (V) Fast rate-based coding
- Rate vs. timing (IV) Chaos
- Rate vs. timing (III) Another category error
- Rate vs. timing (II) Rate in spike-based theories
- Rate vs. timing (I) A category error
Politique des sciences
- L'obscurantisme de l'excellence (Libération)
- "Il faut permettre au chercheur de chercher plutôt que de manager son entreprise-laboratoire" (Le Monde)
- Book review: Systematicity: the nature of science, by Paul Hoyningen-Huene
- Academic precarity and the single PI lab model
- Une analyse globale de la nouvelle politique de recherche (III) - Faut-il évaluer la recherche ?
- Une analyse globale de la nouvelle politique de recherche - (II) Préjugés psychologiques de l’idéologie managériale
- Une analyse globale de la nouvelle politique de recherche (I) - le contexte idéologique
Publication system
- Better than the grant lottery
- Revues prédatrices : quel est le problème ?
- Are journals necessary filters?
- The great misunderstanding about peer review and the nature of scientific facts
- 10 simple rules to format a preprint
- Free the journals
- Workshop in CNS Antwerp 2017
- My appeal to PLoS Computational Biology
- My new year resolution : to help move science to the post-journal world
- A vision of the post-journal world
- Do we need a new computational neuroscience journal ?
- You are not a good scientist if you use impact factors for evaluating research
- A praise of post-publication review
- A few ideas to improve the grant system
- Is peer review a good thing?
Spike initiation
- Draft of chapter 6, Spike initiation with an initial segment
- Technical draft for chapter 5, Propagation of action potentials
- New chapter : Excitability of an isopotential membrane
- Update on the book
- Comments on the soliton model of action potential
- General bibliography on action potential theory
- A book on the theory of action potentials
- Why do neurons spike?
- Why the textbook account of spike initiation is wrong
- Sharpness of spike initiation explained with photos of moutain roads
- Sharpness of spike initiation explained with a few drawings
- The compartmentalization of spike initiation
Spatial perception
- Project: Binaural cues and spatial hearing in ecological environments
- Neural correlates of perception (what's wrong with them)
- Some propositions for future spatial hearing research (III) - The coding problem
- Some propositions for future spatial hearing research (II) - Tuning curves
- Some propositions for future spatial hearing research (I) – The ecological situation and the computational problem
- A neurological case supporting the sensorimotor theory of perception
- Spatial perception of pain (IV) Empirical evidence
- Spatial perception of pain (III) How can we feel pain inside the body?
- Spatial perception of pain (II)
- Spatial perception of pain (I)
- What is sound? (XVI) On the spatial character of tones
- What is sound? (XV) Footsteps and head scratching
- What is sound? (XIV) Are there unnatural sounds?
- What is sound? (XII) Unnatural binaural sounds
- What is sound? (IX) Sound localization and vision
- What is sound? (VI) Sounds inside the head
- What is sound? (III) Spatial hearing
- What is sound? (II) Sensorimotor contingencies
- What is sound? (I) Hearing vs. seeing
Consciousness
- Notes on consciousness. (XI) Why large language models are not conscious
- Notes on consciousness. (X) Why I am not a panpsychist - Reading notes on Philip Goff’s “Galileo’s error”.
- Notes on consciousness. (IX) Why Integrated Information Theory fails
- Notes on consciousness. (VIII) Is a thermostat conscious?
- Notes on consciousness. (VII) The substrate of consciousness
- Notes on consciousness. (VI) The hard problem of consciousness explained with sex
- Notes on consciousness. (V) 4 key questions about consciousness and the mind-body problem
- Notes on consciousness. (IV) The phenomenal content of neural activity
- Notes on consciousness. (III) Modern panpsychism: about the integrated information theory of consciousness
- Notes on consciousness. (II) Perceiving and knowing
- Notes on consciousness. (I) Time