Simulation of an assembly of simplified nerve cells on a digital computer

Abstract

A digital computer program simulating an assembly of simplified nerve cell models has been developed for an IBM 709 Data Processing System. The design of the program and the experiments performed with it were undertaken in order to develop techniques for simulating large assemblies of cells, and to study the network response when selected cell parameters are varied. This paper describes the computer program and some of the experimental results obtained from the program.