Neural Network Visualization

The easiest way to visualize processing in neural networks is probably to download and install Neural Viewer. Although certainly not the environment to be used for biologically plausible cognitive simulation, it is still a very useful tool for understanding basic computational principles like spreading activation, spatio-temporal codes, hebbian learning, membrane thresholds, etc. And on an aesthetic level, it's just beautiful to literally see how neural oscillations give rise to abstract representations.

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