Biology and computation : a physicist's choice : reprint volume
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Biology and computation : a physicist's choice : reprint volume
（Advanced series in neuroscience, v. 3）
World Scientific, c1994
- : hard
- : pbk
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Includes index(p. 847-852)
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Description
This book provides a comprehensive review of the works in the rapidly evolving field of neural networks and brain studies. Its purpose is two-fold: to help physicists entering this field to get a broader view of the context of the domain, and to help scientists of other disciplines to reach a better understanding of the physicists' contributions within a context of perspectives they can relate to.Included in the volume are 68 carefully selected, high quality reprints to provide the volume with both breadth and depth. It is organized into 5 sections and 22 chapters, both the sections and chapters being preceded by introductory comments by the editors.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Setting the stage: forewords
- introductory warnings
- physics, biology, computation
- computer and brain
- logic and statistics
- some perceptual facts and issues. Part 2 Biological concepts and methods. Part 3 computational goals and means
- mental representations
- information theory and perception
- neuroanatomy
- aspects of biocomputation. Part 4 Modes of computation: processing and learning
- neural networks
- parallel algorithms
- generalization
- learning a rule
- early sensory processing
- neural codes. Part 5 Brain areas, circuits and dynamics: sensory and motor pathways
- bridges between psychophysics and physiology
- structures and functions of various brain areas
- representations of space in the brain
- oscillations and synchrony. Part 6 Debates and speculations: theory-experimental interplay
- roles of retroactivation
- computational strategies
- language and consciousness.
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