About¶

Welcome! This is an open and collaborative project where we model sound localization in the brain. How do neurons compute where a sound is coming from, using just the signals in both ears? To investigate this, we train spiking neural network (SNN) models and analyze them.

We aim to work together on this and write a massive, joint paper. Everyone who contributes gets to be an author of that paper, regardless of whether or not their work is included in the final draft.

Read on for how to join and contribute to this project.

Context¶

This project is part of COMOB, the project for collaborative modelling of the brain. It grew out of Dan Goodman’s tutorial for the 2022 Cosyne conference.

That tutorial gave a brief introduction to SNN models, and to the surrogate gradient descent method for training them. The tutorial’s course materials are freely available online.