Description: I - Analysis and Modeling Tools and Techniques.- Section 1: Analysis.- Optimal Real-Time Signal Processing in the Nervous System.- Measuring the Coding Efficiency of Sensory Neurons.- Non-linear Analysis of Models for Biological Pattern Formation:Application to Ocular Dominance Stripes.- A Hierarchical Sensory-Motor Architecture of Oscillating Cortical Area Subnetworks.- A Computationally Efficient Spike Initiator Model that Produces a Wide Variety of Neural Responses.- Linearization by Noise and/or Additional Shunting Current of a Modified FitzHugh Nagumo Spiking Model.- Section 2: Modeling.- Genesis: A Neuronal Simulation System.- CAJAL-91: A Biological Neural Network Simulator.- Nodus: A User Friendly Neuron Simulator for Macintosh Computers.- NeMoSys: An Approach to Realistic Neural Simulation.- NEURON-A Program for Simulation of Nerve Equations.- II - Sensory Systems.- Section 3: Visual System.- Models of Activity-Dependent Neural Development.- Visual Inputs and Information Processing in Sensory Cortex: An in vivo Developmental Study.- Motion Detection and Directional Selectivity in the Crayfish Visual System.- Neither DoG nor LoG Fits the Receptive Field of the Vertebrate Cone.- Cellular and Network Determinants of Visual Motion Properties in Cortical Neurons: Studies with an in vitro Preparation of Visual Cortex.- Section 4: Auditory System.- Reconstruction of Target Images in the Sonar of Bats.- Non-phase Locked Auditory Cells and 'Envelope' Detection.- Model of the Origin of Neuronal Selectivity for Binaural Intensity Difference in the Barn Owl.- A Resonance Model of High Frequency Binaural Phase Sensitivity in the Barn Owl's Auditory Brainstem.- A Computational Model of the Cat Medial Geniculate Body Ventral Division.- Simulation of Neural Responses thatUnderlie Speech Discrimination.- Section 5: Other Sensory Systems.- The Jamming Avoidance Response (JAR) of the Electric Fish, Eigenmannia: Computational Rules and Their Neuronal Implementation.- 'Small Cell' Simulations: Physiological Features of a Phase Difference Detector.- Compartmental Modeling of Macular Primary Neuron Branch Processes.- Modeling of Chaotic Dynamics in the Olfactory System and Application to Pattern Recognition.- III - Motor Systems.- Section 6: Central Pattern Generations (CPG's).- Computational Implications of a Serotonin-Sensitive Region of Axonal Membrane on a Dual Function Motor Neuron.- Section 7: Cortex, Cerebellum and Spinal Cord.- Nonlinear Synaptic Integration in Neostriatal Spiny Neurons.- Modeling Vestibulo-Ocular Reflex Dynamics: From Classical Analysis to Neural Networks.- Movement Primitives in the Frog Spinal Cord.- Model and Simulation of a Simplified Cerebellar Neural Network for Classical Conditioning of the Rabbit Eye-blink Response.

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