Spiking neuron models

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…not a widely known research topic. One paper I've read is Gerstner et al. (1999) in which they describe a model of unsupervised learning. Gerstner also has a book called Spiking Neuron Models , which is available online, that goes into a lot of detail on the topic. Other people have done supervised learning by evolving network topologies using genetic algorithms. The advantage of spike-based models is that they they also seem to scale better to larger networks, and have greater power for networks of similar complexity. I'm quite optimistic about this field of research. Neural network research has seemed to become stagnant recently for some reason, but I think switching to spike-based models is the way out of that.