This is not my subfield of neuroscience, but here are some people I know who do spiking neural network simulation to understand how brains work: http://www.mat

This is not my subfield of neuroscience, but here are some people I know who do spiking neural network simulation to understand how brains work: http://www.math.pitt.edu/~bdoiron/ http://www.math.pitt.edu/~bdoiron/ http://neurotheory.columbia.edu/~larry/ http://neurotheory.columbia.edu/~larry/ http://www.cns.nyu.edu/wanglab/ http://www.cns.nyu.edu/wanglab/ http://alleninstitute.org/our-research/modeling-analysis-theory/ http://alleninstitute.org/our-research/modeling-analysis-the... (modeling group) http://www.nada.kth.se/~ala/ http://www.nada.kth.se/~ala/ There are also some companies that are led by people with academic experience doing spiking neural network simulation and seem to be trying to commercialize it: http://www.braincorporation.com/ http://www.braincorporation.com/ http://www.evolvedmachines.com/ http://www.evolvedmachines.com/