The Computational Brain

Dear Colleagues,

Recently it has become clear that the brain acts as a computational system but does not rely on binary codes, as seen with Turing-based computational systems. In this collection of papers, we will review the mechanisms by which information enters the nervous system, is stored and, later, retrieved. This does not rely simply on physiological action potentials because the action potential is made up of three components: the physiological action potential as described by Hodgkin and Hixley, the action potential pulse, and the computational action potential as described by Winlow and Johnson. Here, we will explore these mechanisms in more detail, including information storage in reverberatory loops in the neocortex. We invite submissions from a wide range of disciplines and encourage authors to share insights that can drive the computational brain.

Prof. Dr. William Winlow
Dr. Andrew Johnson
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