The simplest questions
are the most profound.
Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Where
are you going?
What are you doing?
Think about these once in awhile, and
watch your answers change.
-Richard Bach-
The following questions too are similar in scope:
discussing the origins, core
domains, prospects and ongoing activities in the field of Computational
Neuroscience.
1. Can one become a productive computational neuroscientist if one is
neither a molecular biologist nor a computer scientist? What is the
ideal common minimum program which
does suitable justice to low-level explicitly biophysical and
high-level theoretical models of network function?
2. What constitutes effective training
for a beginner to intelligently interpret and appreciate in vivo and in vitro neural imaging data?What imaging modalities and analysis techniques are the essential ones that ought to be in every computational
neuroscientist’s toolbox?
3.
When can we expect companies developing and dealing in neuro-inspired
software, neural robotics and cognitive assistive technologies enter
the corporate mainstream?
4.
What are the accepted standards and platforms of choice for
implementation, representation, storage and sharing of mathematical
models in neuroscience?
5. How can Network-Gauge approaches to intracellular systems biology which are
currently being explored in pharmacology, be adapted revolutionize neuroscience
as well?
6. What are the significant modeling challenges in extending
traditional biophysical studies to studies of biodigital interfaces?
7. What present-day neural prostheses would figure in a list of
quasi-organs whose study will become as necessary as the study of
natural organs in human physiology?
8. The
‘figural primitives of perceptual grammar’ seem to have
been at least partially understood for vision, for instance in
Geons. What is the relative progress in other sensory modalities?
9.
Are there ways to create wholly mathematical pathogenesis models
for conditions like , Alzheimer's Disease and Autism Spectrum
Disorders (as against animal models) which allow a researcher to
specify symptoms as inputs, and obtain underlying causes by formulating
an inverse problem of sorts?
10. How essential and edifying is a study of the historical context and philosophical motivations of neuroscience?
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