Computational Neuroscience Third Latin American Workshop, LAWCN 2021, São Luís, Brazil, December 8–10, 2021, Revised Selected Papers

The 13 full papers and 3 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 27 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Interdisciplinary applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML); AI and ML applied to robotics; AI and ML applied to biomedical sciences; Health issues and computational neuroscience; Software and hardware implementations in neuroscience; and Neuroengineering – science and technology.

Interdisciplinary applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML).- Semantic segmentation of the cultivated area of plantations with U-net.- Use and Interpretation of Item Response Theory applied to Machine Learning.- AI and ML applied to robotics.- Towards Loop Closure Detection for SLAM Applications using Bag of Visual Features: Experiments and Simulation.- Loss Function Regularisation on the Iterated Racing Procedure for Automatic Tuning of RatSLAM Parameters.- Controlling the UR3 robotic arm using a leap motion: a comparative study.- AI and ML applied to biomedical sciences.- Web service based epileptic seizure detection by applying machine learning techniques.- Health issues and computational neuroscience.- Machine Learning Search of Novel Selective NaV1.2 and NaV1.6 Inhibitors as Potential Treatment against Dravet Syndrome.- Implementation of intra and extracellular nonperiodic scale-free stimulation in silico for the NEURON simulator.- In silico investigation of the effects of distinct temporal patterns of electrical stimulation to the amygdala using a network of Izhikevich neurons.- Software and hardware implementations in neuroscience.- Brain connectivity measures in EEG-based biometry for epilepsy patients.- A multiplatform output stage for the development of current-fixed electrical stimulators applied to neural electrophysiology.- Neuroengineering – science and technology.- Physiological self-regulation using biofeedback training: from concept to clinical applicability.- Movement-Related Electroencephalography in Stroke Patients across a Brain-Computer Interface-based Intervention.- Electrophysiological Correlates of Freeze of Gait in Parkinson Disease: Increased STN-LFP Alpha Power and the Possible Role of Attentional Circuits.- Effect of hand dominance when decoding motor imagery grasping tasks within the same hand.- Kinematic responses as a control strategy to visual occlusion.