Neuromorphic Artificial Intelligence and Its Applications: Retrospective and Prospective
A special issue of Brain Sciences (ISSN 2076-3425). This special issue belongs to the section "Computational Neuroscience, Neuroinformatics, and Neurocomputing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 March 2026 | Viewed by 4250
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Neuromorphic artificial intelligence (AI), inspired by the structures of brains, constitutes a new shift in the development of AI technology that, in contrast to deep learning (DL), is able to process vast amounts of information extremely quickly, accurately, and expending far less energy than any AI/DL system. It is unparalleled in its ability to rapidly, and on its own, adapt and learn from changing and unexpected environmental contingencies with very limited resources. Because it utilizes event-based processing in which neurons spike only in response to specific stimuli, at any given time only a small fraction of neurons is active, drastically reducing energy consumption. Thus, neuromorphic AI is ideal for low-power devices such as mobile phones or cameras and, because it utilizes temporal coding as a form of efficient information processing, it is extremely precise and fast allowing visual recognition in the human brain to be achieved in less than 100ms. To learn stably about the world, it uses temporal learning, a type of continual learning that depends on the timing of spikes. Neuromorphic AI is expected to open new roads to computing technologies (software and hardware) and pave the way to true artificial general intelligence.
This Special Issue aims to solicit articles that report state-of-the-art approaches to and recent advances in:
- Novel neuromorphic architectures and models constrained by neurobiological data from multiple levels of detail showing mastery in all faculties, including sensory recognition, learning and memory, decision making, cognitive control, reasoning, language processing, and consciousness;
- Learning algorithms constrained by the limits of biology and neuromorphic hardware;
- Neuromorphic hardware (sensors, chips, cameras, etc.) for cognitive systems;
- Applications of neuromorphic architectures or hardware to cognitive robotics;
- Application of neuromorphic architectures or hardware to all other aspects of science and technology including healthcare, medical imaging, environment, etc.;
This Special Issue will bring together scientists with diverse backgrounds to discuss current concepts and exciting new results in this broad field, cutting across disciplines and focusing on topics that have a high potential to synergize. It is expected that this Special Issue will generate valuable new insights and highlight promising directions of future progress.
Research articles, review articles, opinion articles, theory and hypothesis articles, short communications.
Dr. Vassilis Cutsuridis
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- neuromorphic artificial intelligence
- deep learning
- sensory recognition
- cognitive function
- cognitive robotics
- neuroimaging
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