Foreword -- Preface -- 1. Corticofugal modulation of tactile responses of neurons in the spinal trigeminal nucleus : a wavelet coherence study / Eduardo Malmierca, Nazareth P. Castellanos, Valeri A. Makarov, Angel Nuñez -- 2. Neural mechanisms of leg motor control in crayfish : insights for neurobiologically-inspired autonomous systems / Didier Le Ray, Morgane Le Bon-Jego, Daniel Cattaert -- 3. Forward dendric spikes : a mechanism for parallel processing in dendritic subunits and shifting output codes / Oscar Herreras, Julia Makarova, José Manuel Ibarz -- 4. Spiking neural P systems : an overview / Gheorghe Pǎun, Mario J. Perez-Jimenez -- 5. Simulation of the action potential in the neuron's membrane in artificial neural networks / Juan Ramón Rabuñal Dopico, Javier Pereira Loureiro, Mónica Miguélez Rico -- 6. Recent methodology in connectionist systems / Ana B. Porto Pazos, Alberto Alvarellos González, Alejandro Pazos Sierra -- 7. A biologically inspired autonomous robot control based on behavioural oordination in evolutionary robotics / José A. Fernández-León, Gerardo G. Acosta, Miguel A. Mayosky, Oscar C. Ibáñez -- 8. An approach to artificial concept learning based on human concept learning by using artificial neural networks / Enrique Mérida-Casermeiro, Domingo López-Rodríguez, J.M. Ortiz-de-Lazcano-Lobato -- 9. Artificial cell systems based in gene expression protein effects / Enrique Fernández-Blanco, Julián Dorado, Nieves Pedreira -- 10. Computing vs. genetics / José M. Barreiro, Juan Pazos.

11. Artificial mind for virtual characters / Iara Moema Oberg Vilela -- 12. A general rhythmic pattern generation architecture for legged locomotion / Zhijun Yan, Felipe M.G. França -- 13. Genetic algorithms and multimodal search / Marcos Gestal, José Manuel Vázquez Naya, Norberto Ezquerra -- 14. Bimolecular computing devices in synthetic biology / Jesús M. Miró, Alfonso Rodríguez-Patón -- 15. Guiding self-organization in systems of cooperative mobile agents / Alejandro Rodríguez, Alexander Grushin, James A. Reggia -- 16. Evaluating a bio-inspired approach for the design of a grid information system : the SO-grid portal / Agostino Forestiero, Carlo Mastroianni, Fausto Pupo, Giandomenico Spezzano -- 17. Graph based evolutionary algorithms / Steven M. Corns, Daniel A. Ashlock, Kenneth Mark Bryden -- 18. Dynamics of neural networks as nonlinear systems with several equilibria / Daniela Danciu -- 19. A genetic algorithm-artificial neural network method for the prediction of longitudinal dispersion coefficient in rivers / Jianhua Yang, Evor L. Hines, Ian Guymer, Daciana D. Iliescu, Mark S. Leeson, Gregory P. King, XuQin Li -- 20. The exposition of fuzzy decision trees and their application in biology / Malcolm J. Beynon, Kirsty Park.