Original author(s) | Carnegie Mellon University |
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Developer(s) | University of Colorado at Boulder |
Stable release | 8.2.0 / September 7, 2017
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Written in | Go |
Operating system | Cross-platform |
Type | Neural network software |
License | GPL |
Website | Emergent homepage |
Emergent (formerly PDP++) is a biologically-based neural simulation software that is primarily intended for creating models of the brain and cognitive processes. Development initially began in 1995 at Carnegie Mellon University, and as of 2014[update], continues at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The 3.x release of the software, which was known as PDP++, is featured in the textbook Computational Explorations in Cognitive Neuroscience.