Sterling, Peter. <br/><br/>
Principles of Neural Design. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (567 pages) 
 - The MIT Press Series .
 - The MIT Press Series .
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> Two distinguished neuroscientists distill general principles from more than a century of scientific study, "reverse engineering" the brain to understand its design. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780262327312 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Brain-Physiology.<br/>Neural circuitry.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>QP376 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>612.8/2