The computational brain /
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| Author / Creator: | Churchland, Patricia Smith |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1992. |
| Description: | xi, 544 p. : ill. ; 27 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Computational neuroscience |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1399194 |
Table of Contents:
- Series Foreword
- Preface
- Introduction
- Neuroscience Overview
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Levels in Nervous Systems
- 3. Structure at Various Levels of Organization
- 4. A Short List of Brain Facts
- Computational Overview
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Looking Up the Answer
- 3. Linear Associators
- 4. Constraint Satisfaction: Hopfield Networks and Boltzmann Machines
- 5. Learning in Neural Nets
- 6. Competitive Learning
- 7. Curve Fitting
- 8. Feedforward Nets: Two Examples
- 9. Recurrent Nets
- 10. From Toy World to Real World
- 11. What Good are Optimazation Procedures to Neuroscience?
- 12. Models: Realistic and
- Abstract
- 13. Concluding Remarks
- Selected Readings
- Selected Journals
- Representing the World
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Constructing a Visual World
- 3. Thumbnail Sketch of the Mammalian Visual System
- 4. Representing in the Brain: What Can We Learn from the Visual System?
- 5. What Is So Special About Distribution?
- 6. World Enough and Time
- 7. Shape From Shading: A Neurocomputational Study
- 8. Stereo Vision
- 9. Computational Models of Stereo Vision
- 10. Hyperacuity: From Mystery to Mechanism
- 11. Vector Averaging
- 12. Concluding Remarks
- Selected Readings
- Plasticity: Cells, Circuits, Brains, and Behavior
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Learning and the Hippocampus
- 3. Donald Hebb and Synaptic Plasticity
- 4. Memories are Made of This: Mechanisms of Neuronal Plasticity
- 5. Cells and Circuts
- 6. Decreasing Synaptic Strength
- 7. Back to Systems and Behavior
- 8. Being and Timing
- 9. Development of Nervous Systems
- 10. Modules and Networks
- Selected Readings
- Sensorimotor Integration
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Leechnet
- 3. Computation and the Vestibulo-Ocular Reflex
- 4. Time and Time Again
- 5. The Segmental Swimming Oscillator
- 6. Modeling the Neuron
- 7. Concluding Remarks
- Concluding and Beyond
- Afterword
- Appendix Anatomical and Physiological Techniques
- 1. Permanent Lesions
- Human Studies
- Animal Models
- 2. Reversible Lseions and Microlesions
- 3. Imaging Techniques
- 4. Gross Electrical and Magnetic Recording
- 5. Single-Unit Recording
- 6. Anatomical Tract Tracing
- Notes
- Glossary
- References
- Index
