Professor Bruce Graham

Emeritus Professor

Computing Science University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA

Professor Bruce Graham

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I am Emeritus Professor of Computing Science in the Division of Computing Science & Mathematics, Faculty of Natural Sciences at the University of Stirling in Scotland, U.K. I am a member of the Biological Modelling Research Group, the Data Science and Intelligent Systems Research Group and the university-wide research programme in "Contextual learning and processing in humans and machines". My research interests principally are in computational neuroscience, focussing on the operation and function of neurons and neural networks.

The Computational Capabilities of Nervous Systems: My research concerns understanding the information processing capabilities of biological nervous systems and how they may provide high-level cognitive function. As computers become more powerful, and experimental knowledge of the nervous system grows, the opportunity to formulate and then to simulate theories of nervous system operation increases. This approach can be used to test how theories of cognitive function may be implemented by a biological nervous system. It can also lead from a better understanding of the computational capabilities of the nervous system to new theories of cognitive function. My work covers nervous system modelling at many levels - from just a part of a single neuron, to networks of neurons. Recent work takes ideas from contextual processing in the neocortex to create new forms of artificial neural networks that process information "in context". This builds on the seminal research of Bill Phillips and Jim Kay, as detailed in Kay and Phillips, Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 2010.

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