[Comp-neuro] Scholarpedia: Results of election of authors

[Eugene M. Izhikevich]

Scholarpedia - the free peer-reviewed encyclopedia - is conducting
election of authors for certain articles with the goal to identify the
best living expert to invite to write the articles.

The results of recent election are:

Miguel Nicolelis elected for "Brain-machine interface".
Nancy Kopell elected for "Relaxation oscillator".
John Lisman elected for "Synaptic plasticity".
Stevan Harnad elected for "Turing test".
Daniel Wolpert elected for "Motor control".
John Searle elected for "Chinese room argument".

All these experts have already agreed to write their corresponding articles.

The lists of nominees (in the chronological order of nomination by the
public) are provided below.

==Brain-machine interface==
1. Miguel A. L. Nicolelis*
2. Andrew B. Schwartz
3. John Donoghue
4. Richard Andersen

==Relaxation oscillator==
1. Nancy Kopell*
2. David Terman
3. Jonathan Rubin

==Synaptic plasticity==
1. Robert C. Malenka
2. John Lisman*
3. Niraj S. Desai
4. Tim Bliss

==Turing test==
1. Christof Teuscher
2. Raymond Kurzweil
3. James H. Moor
4. Stevan Harnad*

==Motor control==
1. Daniel Wolpert*
2. Mitsuo Kawato
3. Stefan Schaal
4. Reza Shadmehr
5. Emilio Bizzi
6. Ferdinando A. Mussa-Ivaldi
7. Michael S A Graziano

==Chinese room argument==
1. Dr. J.M.Bishop
2. John Searle*
3. Stevan Harnad

Scholarpedia statistics is at
http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Special:Statistics

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