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Principles of Neural Design.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The MIT Press SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (567 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262327312
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Principles of Neural DesignDDC classification:
  • 612.8/2
LOC classification:
  • QP376
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 What Engineers Know about Design -- 2 Why an Animal Needs a Brain -- 3 Why a Bigger Brain? -- 4 How Bigger Brains Are Organized -- 5 Information Processing: From Molecules to Molecular Circuits -- 6 Information Processing in Protein Circuits -- 7 Design of Neurons -- 8 How Photoreceptors Optimize the Capture of Visual Information -- 9 The Fly Lamina: An Efficient Interface for High-Speed Vision -- 10 Design of Neural Circuits: Recoding Analogue Signals to Pulsatile -- 11 Principles of Retinal Design -- 12 Beyond the Retina: Pathways to Perception and Action -- 13 Principles of Efficient Wiring -- 14 Learning as Design/Design of Learning -- 15 Summary and Conclusions -- Principles of Neural Design -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Summary: Two distinguished neuroscientists distill general principles from more than a century of scientific study, "reverse engineering" the brain to understand its design.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 What Engineers Know about Design -- 2 Why an Animal Needs a Brain -- 3 Why a Bigger Brain? -- 4 How Bigger Brains Are Organized -- 5 Information Processing: From Molecules to Molecular Circuits -- 6 Information Processing in Protein Circuits -- 7 Design of Neurons -- 8 How Photoreceptors Optimize the Capture of Visual Information -- 9 The Fly Lamina: An Efficient Interface for High-Speed Vision -- 10 Design of Neural Circuits: Recoding Analogue Signals to Pulsatile -- 11 Principles of Retinal Design -- 12 Beyond the Retina: Pathways to Perception and Action -- 13 Principles of Efficient Wiring -- 14 Learning as Design/Design of Learning -- 15 Summary and Conclusions -- Principles of Neural Design -- Notes -- References -- Index.

Two distinguished neuroscientists distill general principles from more than a century of scientific study, "reverse engineering" the brain to understand its design.

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