Neural modeling.

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Abstract
Overt neural modeling has proven valuable in neurophysiology, and it seems certain that it will continue to do so. The purposes of modeling that are significant to physiologists are threefold facilitation of preliminary testing of pertinent hypotheses, provision of tractable means of synthesizing disparate physiological data into unified consistent pictures, and generation of guidelines to crucial physiological experiments. In this review it was shown how numerous models have fulfilled one or more of these goals, contributing concrete knowledge to neurophysiology. Contemporary neural models are playing an important role in complementing direct neurophysiological investigation. While their accomplishments have been substantial, their utility certainly has by no means been fully exploited. The increasingly close liaison between theoretical and experimental neurophysiology made possible by modeling presents an intriguing challenge for the future.