Preface

This Special Issue of Mathematical Biosciences and Engineeringcontains ten selected papers presented at the Neural Coding 2012workshop. Neuroscience is traditionally very close to mathematicswhich stems from the famous theoretical work of McCulloch--Pitts andHodgkin--Huxley in the middle of the previous century. Great progresshas been made since those times and through the decades this fruitfulcombination of disciplines continue. The workshop was held in thebeautiful town of Prague in the Czech Republic, September 2-7,2012. This was the 10th of a series of international workshops on thissubject, the first one also held in Prague (1995), then in Versailles(1997), Osaka (1999), Plymouth (2001), Aulla (2003), Marburg (2005),Montevideo (2007), Tainan (2009), and in Limassol (2010). As in theprevious workshops, this was a single track multidisciplinary eventbringing together experimental and computational neuroscientists withample time for informal discussions in a convivial atmosphere. TheNeural Coding Workshops are traditionally biennial symposia eachlasting 5 or 6 days. They are relatively small in size,interdisciplinary with major emphasis on the search for commonprinciples in neural coding. The workshop was conceived to bringtogether scientists from different disciplines for an in-depthdiscussion of model-building and computational strategies.

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