Machine Learning Algorithms - Second Edition

Computational neuroscience

It's not surprising that many machine learning algorithms have been defined and refined thanks to the contribution of research in the field of computational neuroscience. On the other hand, the most diffused adaptive systems are the animals, thanks to their nervous systems, that allow an effective interaction with the environment. From a mechanistic viewpoint, we need to assume that all the processes working inside the gigantic network of neurons are responsible for all computational features, starting from low-level perception and progressing until the highest abstractions, like language, logic reasoning, artistic creation, and so forth.

At the beginning of 1900, Ramón y Cajal and Golgi discovered the structure ...