Visualizing a joint future of neuroscience and neuromorphic engineering

Friedemann Zenke; Sander M Bohté; Claudia Clopath; Iulia M Comşa; Julian Göltz; Wolfgang Maass; Timothée Masquelier; Richard Naud; Emre O Neftci; Mihai A Petrovici; Franz Scherr; Dan F M Goodman

doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2021.01.009

Visualizing a joint future of neuroscience and neuromorphic engineering

Neuron. 2021 Feb 17;109(4):571-575. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2021.01.009.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland. Electronic address: friedemann.zenke@fmi.ch.
² CWI, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences (SILS), University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; AI Department, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands.
³ Bioengineering Department, Imperial College London, London, UK.
⁴ Google Research, Zürich, Switzerland.
⁵ Kirchhoff Institute for Physics, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany; Department of Physiology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
⁶ Institute of Theoretical Computer Science, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria.
⁷ CNRS-CERCO UMR 5549, 31300 Toulouse, France.
⁸ Brain and Mind Research Institute of the University of Ottawa, Department of Cellular Molecular Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.
⁹ Department of Cognitive Sciences, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA; Department of Computer Science, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA.
¹⁰ Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, London, UK.

PMID: 33600754
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2021.01.009

Abstract

Recent research resolves the challenging problem of building biophysically plausible spiking neural models that are also capable of complex information processing. This advance creates new opportunities in neuroscience and neuromorphic engineering, which we discussed at an online focus meeting.

Publication types

Clinical Conference

MeSH terms

Biomedical Engineering / methods
Biomedical Engineering / trends*
Forecasting
Humans
Models, Neurological*
Neural Networks, Computer*
Neurons / physiology
Neurosciences / methods
Neurosciences / trends*