The computational brain
By: Patricia S. Churchland and Terrence J. Sejnowski.
Contributors: Sejnowski, Terrence J.
Series: Computational neuroscience
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 544
Subjects: Brain -- Computer simulation; Neural networks (Neurobiology); Brain -- physiology; Computer Simulation; Models, Neurological; Neurosciences -- methods
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [479]-523) and index.
"A Bradford book."
Table of contents: title: Preface
pagenum: ix; label: 1
title: Introduction
pagenum: 1; label: 2
title: Neuroscience Overview
pagenum: 17; title: Introduction
pagenum: 17; title: Levels in Nervous Systems
pagenum: 18; title: Structure at Various Levels of Organization
pagenum: 27; title: A Short List of Brain Facts
pagenum: 48; label: 3
title: Computational Overview
pagenum: 61; title: Introduction
pagenum: 61; title: Looking Up the Answer
pagenum: 69; title: Linear Associators
pagenum: 77; title: Constraint Satisfaction: Hopfield Networks and Boltzmann Machines
pagenum: 82; title: Learning in Neural Nets
pagenum: 96; title: Competitive Learning
pagenum: 102; title: Curve Fitting
pagenum: 105; title: Feedforward Nets: Two Examples
pagenum: 107; title: Recurrent Nets
pagenum: 115; title: From Toy World to Real World
pagenum: 125; title: What Good Are Optimization Procedures to Neuroscience?
pagenum: 130; title: Models: Realistic and Abstract
pagenum: 136; title: Concluding Remarks
pagenum: 137; label: 4
title: Representing the World
pagenum: 141; title: Introduction
pagenum: 141; title: Constructing a Visual World
pagenum: 142; title: Thumbnail Sketch of the Mammalian Visual System
pagenum: 148; title: Representing in the Brain: What Can We Learn from the Visual System?
pagenum: 157; title: What Is So Special About Distribution?
pagenum: 163; title: World Enough and Time
pagenum: 174; title: Shape from Shading: A Neurocomputational Study
pagenum: 183; title: Stereo Vision
pagenum: 188; title: Computational Models of Stereo Vision
pagenum: 199; title: Hyperacuity: From Mystery to Mechanism
pagenum: 221; title: Vector Averaging
pagenum: 233; title: Concluding Remarks
pagenum: 237; label: 5
title: Plasticity: Cells, Circuits, Brains, and Behavior
pagenum: 239; title: Introduction
pagenum: 239; title: Learning and the Hippocampus
pagenum: 243; title: Donald Hebb and Synaptic Plasticity
pagenum: 250; title: Memories Are Made of This: Mechanisms of Neuronal Plasticity
pagenum: 254; title: Cells and Circuits
pagenum: 281; title: Decreasing Synaptic Strength
pagenum: 289; title: Back to Systems and Behavior
pagenum: 295; title: Being and Timing
pagenum: 305; title: Development of Nervous Systems
pagenum: 307; title: Modules and Networks
pagenum: 316; label: 6
title: Sensorimotor Integration
pagenum: 331; title: Introduction
pagenum: 331; title: LeechNet
pagenum: 341; title: Computation and the Vestibulo-Ocular Reflex
pagenum: 353; title: Time and Time Again
pagenum: 379; title: The Segmental Swimming Oscillator
pagenum: 388; title: Modeling the Neuron
pagenum: 399; title: Concluding Remarks
pagenum: 411; label: 7
title: Concluding and Beyond
pagenum: 413; title: Afterword
pagenum: 425; label: Appendix
title: Anatomical and Physiological Techniques
pagenum: 427; title: Permanent Lesions
pagenum: 427; title: Reversible Lesions and Microlesions
pagenum: 430; title: Imaging Techniques
pagenum: 432; title: Gross Electrical and Magnetic Recording
pagenum: 437; title: Single-Unit Recording
pagenum: 440; title: Anatomical Tract Tracing
pagenum: 442; title: Notes
pagenum: 445; title: Glossary
pagenum: 457; title: References
pagenum: 479; title: Index
pagenum: 525