Computational neuroscience resources
On this page is a list of resources for learning computational neuroscience that are freely available online. This might be helpful for students or people who are new to computational neuroscience. Please do contact me if you have good suggestions not included.
General computational neuroscience
Textbooks
- Wulfram Gerstner
- The handbook of brain theory and neural networks (Michael Arbib)
- Neural Networks - A Systematic Introduction (Raul Rojas, 1996)
- Computational cognitive neuroscience (course materials and lectures)
- Dynamical systems in neuroscience, and others (Izhikevich)
- Neuroscience Online (Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, McGovern Medical School at UTHealth)
- Modeling Neural Circuits Made Simple (Robert Rosenbaum)
Courses
- Neuroscience for machine learners (by me!) - intro course on neuroscience for people with previous experience with ML
- Neuromatch Academy - 2020 summer school
- Computational Neuroscience - Coursera (Rao and Fairhall)
- INCF Training Space - several courses, including:
- Bristol computational neuroscience unit
- Computational neuroscience (Conor Houghton, Cian O'Donnell and Rui Ponte Costa)
- Information Processing and the Brain (Conor Houghton and Rui Ponte Costa)
- MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences
- Simulation Neuroscience (HBP-centric)
- How to build a brain from scratch (Chris Summerfield, Oxford)
- Data Science and Data Skills for Neuroscientists (SfN)
- Methods in Computational Neuroscience Summer School (from Woods Hole MBL)
- Neurocomputing (Julien Vitay)
Reference
- Scholarpedia has some good introductory articles on many computational neuroscience topics.
Specialised topics
- Bayesian models of perception and action textbook (Wei Ji Ma, Konrad Kording, Daniel Goldreich)
- Cosyne tutorial 2022 on spiking neural networks (Dan Goodman)
- Computational Sensory-Motor Neuroscience (CoSMo) summer school
- Information Theory, Inference and Learning Algorithms textbook (David MacKay)
Other lists and collected resources
- Fleur Zeldenrust's intro to comp neuro resource list
- Austin Soplata's list
- List of short courses and schools in comp neuro and related topics
- Computational Neuroscience on the Web
- OpenSourceBrain's introduction to computational neuroscience list
- Hitchhacker's guide to the brain (neuroimaging tutorials and resources)