Abstract
Virtual neurons are essential in computational neuroscience to study the relation between neuronal form and function. One way of obtaining virtual neurons is by algorithmic generation from scratch. However, a main disadvantage of current available generation methods is that they impose a priori limitations on the outcomes of the algorithms. We present a new tool, EvOL-NEURON, that overcomes this problem by putting a posteriori constraints on generated virtual neurons. We present a proof of principle and show that our method is particularly suited to investigate the neuronal form-function relation. (c) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 963-972 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Journal | Neurocomputing |
Volume | 71 |
Issue number | 4-6 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Jan 2008 |
Keywords
- virtual neuron
- neuronal morphology
- computational neuroanatomy
- DENDRITIC MORPHOLOGY
- PARSIMONIOUS DESCRIPTION
- HIPPOCAMPAL-NEURONS
- ALPHA-MOTONEURONS
- PYRAMIDAL NEURONS
- RECONSTRUCTION
- NETWORKS
- PATTERNS
- MODELS
- TOOL