Biophysics of Computation
Subtitle: Information Processing in Single Neurons (Computational Neuroscience)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: October 2, 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 562
ISBN-13: 9780195181999
First sentence: Any physical or biophysical mechanism instantiating an information processing system that needs to survive in the real world must obey several constraints: (1) it must operate at high speeds, (2) it must have a rich repertoire of computational primitives, with the ability to implement a variety of linear and nonlinear, high-gain, operations, and (3) it must interface with the physical world-in the sense of being able to represent sensory input patterns accurately and translate the result of the computations into action, that is motor output (Keyes, 1985).