Constraints in Neural Systems Design

Themes:

  • Physical constraints
    • environmental (e.g., photons)
    • intrinsic (channels, higher)
  • Functional constraints
    • time
    • fidelity
  • Evolutionary constraints
  • Developmental constraints
    (on possible structures)

Topics:

  • Energy/Metabolic/Vascular constraints
  • Size/Mechanical constraints
  • Site/Structure constraints

Questions to be addressed:

  • How efficient?
  • What  principles?
  • What wetware?
  • What is a difficult task?


Web site:       http://cns.montana.edu/~alex/constraints.html

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Alicante workshop.

Materials from the Banbury workshop:   
http://cns.montana.edu/~alex/public/constraints/


Literature

Evolving Brains, Allman
Principles of Animal Design, Weibel, Tailor, Bolis eds.
Symmorphosis, Weibel

Available Data?

What constraints does this impose on neural models?