Dear colleagues, I am pleased to announce the extension of the deadline for submitting your contribution to the special issue of The Scientific World Journal (http://www.hindawi.com/journals/tswj/ titled ‘Hybrid Systems to Investigate the Computational and Learning Properties of Neuronal Assemblies’. The Scientific World Journal is open access and with an impact factor of 1.730. You can find the call for paper here: http://www.hindawi.com/journals/tswj/si/438539/cfp/. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: · Encoding of inputs and retrieval of memories in cultured and simulated neuronal networks · Learning and adaptation in cultured networks · Electrophysiological experiments in closed-loop systems · Mathematical neuronal network models as tools to deduce computational properties of neural circuits · Hybrid systems: living networks coupled to artificial ones · Software and hardware strategies to manipulate and control neuronal dynamics Deadline for article submission: May 30th, 2014; Publication date: October 17th, 2014. On behalf of the other guest editors [Paolo Massobrio (University of Genova, Italy), Danny Eytan (The Hospital for Sick Children, Canada), Paolo Bonifazi (Tel Aviv University, Israel) and Paul Tiesinga (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands)], I look forward to receiving your contribution! Best regards Michela Chiappalone Lead Guest Editor The Scientific World Journal ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Michela Chiappalone, PhD NeuroTech Group Department of Neuroscience and Brain Technologies (NBT) Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) Via Morego 30 16163 Genova (Italy) e-mail : michela.chiappalone@iit.it<mailto:michela.chiappalone@iit.it> web-site : www.iit.it<http://www.iit.it/> direct phone : +39 010 71781743_