TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sterling,Peter
AU  - Laughlin,Simon
TI  - Principles of Neural Design
T2  - The MIT Press Series
SN  - 9780262327312
AV  - QP376 
U1  - 612.8/2 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - MIT Press
KW  - Brain-Physiology
KW  - Neural circuitry
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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ER  -