Computational Neurobiology/Biophysics
While the brain is totally unlike current digital computers, much of what it does can be described as computation. Associative memory, logic and inference, recognizing an odor or a chess position, parsing the world into objects, and generating appropriate sequences of locomotor muscle commands are all describable as computation. Current research focuses on the theory of how the neural circuits of the brain produce such powerful and complex computations, for example in the olfactory system.
Contact:
John Hopfield