4. Biological description of neuronal dynamics

Chapter 4

Neuronal models are the backbone of neuromorphic engineering. They span a wide range of complexities, trying to maintain the delicate balance between bio-plausibility and model tractability. This chapter will discuss the fundamentals of the scientist’s perspective on neuromorphic engineering, emphasizing the biological description of neuronal dynamics. The main aim of this chapter is to provide the necessary background to comprehensively understand the followed electrical and mathematical descriptions. The chapter will present a useful way to coarsely grasp some biological details which can later be utilized to design large-scale neuronal simulations and electrical implementations.