A collection of pictures illustrating experimental and technical principles. A short description of the Poisson distribution and the Poisson process. Photons arrive at the retina with arrival times that may be described by a Poisson process. 9th July, 1999. Braintalks' are given by neuroscience PhD students in the University of Cambridge on their own research fields.
Talks are informal and directed at a general audience.
All are welcome. I did my MSc in Neural Computation in the departments of Computer Science and Psychology at the University of Stirling. The course co-ordinator was Prof. Bill Phillips . My undergraduate degree was in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Bristol. I did my research project with Prof. Alan Roberts in the Xenopus group.