Spatial perception of pain (II)
Where does it hurt? A common answer to this question is: it hurts at the location of the pain receptors in the body. I will discuss three counter-arguments to this proposition, starting with the simple...
View ArticleSpatial perception of pain (III) How can we feel pain inside the body?
I will first start with a summary of the different propositions I made in the previous post about where it hurts. – Proposition A (independent channels): there are two independent channels, one that...
View ArticlePerceiving and knowing
Perceiving space is knowing where things are in the world. Or is it? I am sitting in my living room, and there are big windows on a courtyard. The windows are sound-proof and so if I open just one,...
View ArticleBrian tutorial at CNS 2014
On July 26th 2014, we’ll have a tutorial on “Modelling of spiking neural networks with Brian” at the CNS conference in Québec City. It will feature introductory sessions in the morning (no prior Brian...
View ArticleBrian 2.0 beta release
We are happy to announce the first beta release of Brian 2.0! This is the first version of Brian 2.0 we recommend for general use. From now on, we will try to keep changes that break existing code to a...
View ArticleGoogle Summer of Code 2015
Google Summer of Code 2015 (“a program that offers student developers stipends to write code for various open source projects.”) has announced the accepted mentoring organisations yesterday, among them...
View ArticleBrian 2.0 second beta release
We are happy to announce the second beta release of Brian 2.0! This new version contains important bug fixes and improvements, we therefore strongly recommend all users of Brian 2 to upgrade. If you...
View ArticleBrian 2.0 fourth beta release
We are happy to announce the fourth beta release of Brian 2.0. For more information, have a look at the release notes.
View ArticleBrian tutorial at CNS 2015
On July 18th 2015, we’ll have a tutorial on “Modelling of spiking neural networks with Brian” at the CNS conference in Prague. It will feature introductory sessions in the morning (no prior Brian...
View ArticleBrian 2.0 release candidate
We are happy to announce the release of Brian 2.0rc. This is a release candidate for the final Brian 2.0 release, meaning that from now on we will focus on bug fixes and documentation, without...
View ArticleFirst release of brian2tools
We are happy to announce the release of brian2tools. The brian2tools package aims to become a collection of useful tools for simulating spiking neural networks with brian2 and for analyzing the results...
View ArticleBrian 2.0rc3
We are happy to announce the release of Brian 2.0rc3. This release fixes several bugs, in particular related to long-running simulations (a memory leak and the inability to configure the logging...
View ArticleBrian 2.0
We are very pleased to announce the release of version 2.0 of the Brian neural network simulator. Brian is a free, open source simulator for spiking neural networks. It is written in the Python...
View ArticleBrian 2.0.1
We are happy to announce the release of Brian 2.0.1. This is a bug fix release which does not add any new features but fixes a few important bugs and updates the documentation. Earlier versions of...
View ArticleBrian 2.0.2
We are happy to announce the release of Brian 2.0.2. This release includes a large number of fixes and improvements, in particular important updates for the unit system and multi-compartmental...
View ArticleBrian2GeNN 1.0
We are proud to announce the release of Brian2GeNN, the Brian 2 interface to the GPU-enhanced Neuronal Network (GeNN) simulator. With this interface, a Brian 2 script (as long as it only uses supported...
View ArticleBrian 2.1 and Brian2GeNN 1.1
We are happy to announce the release of Brian 2.1. This release includes a number of fixes and small improvements, and two new major features: support for numerical integration with adaptive-timestep...
View ArticleBrian 2.1.2 and Brian2GeNN 1.1.5
We have released new bug fix releases for Brian 2 (version 2.1.2) and Brian2GeNN (version 1.1.5). The new Brian 2 release fixes two bugs: an incorrect application of the substitution mechanism in...
View ArticleBrian 1.4.4 (maintenance release)
We’ve released Brian 1.4.4, a maintenance release for Brian 1 that fixes compatibility issues with recent versions of numpy/sympy. The packages are available on PyPI: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/brian...
View ArticleBrian 2.1.3
We are happy to announce the release of Brian 2.1.3. This release includes a number of important fixes and performance improvements. For a full list of changes, see the release notes. We recommend all...
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