Carl Craver, Philosophy, Neuroscience, Psychology Program, Washington University A historian and philosopher of neuroscience with particular interest in the development of both mechanistic and computational models of memory processes in the brain
Craver, C. (in press). When mechanistic models explain.
Chris Eliasmith, Department of Philosophy and Director, Computational Neuroscience Research Group, University of Waterloo, Canada. Together with Charles Anderson, he developed a general framework for modeling neurobiological systems in a realistic manner.
Eliasmith, C. (2003). Moving beyond metaphors: Understanding the mind for what it is. Journal of Philosophy. C(10):493-520. Reprinted in Brooks and Akins (eds). Cognition and the Brain. 2005. Cambridge University Press. p.131-159.
Conklin, J. and C. Eliasmith (2005). An attractor network model of path integration in the rat. Journal of Computational Neuroscience 18: 183-203.
Cees van Leeuwen, Director, Laboratory for Perceptual Dynamics, RIKEN Institute, Japan. a perceptual psychologist who has invoked dynamical models of chaotic oscillators to capture phenomena such as alternating perceptual interpretations of ambiguous figures. Cees has a background in philosophy of science and is particularly astute in addressing questions about the epistemic issues in using highly abstract models to advance understanding of concrete phenomena.
Gong, P. and van Leeuwen, C. (2003). Emergence of scale-free network with
chaotic units. Physica A 321 (2003) 679 – 688
