Memory and the computational brain why cognitive science will transform neuroscience

Memory and the Computational Brain offers a provocative argument that goes to the heart of neuroscience, proposing that the field can and should benefit from the recent advances of cognitive science and the development of information theory over the course of the last several decades. -- A provocati...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gallistel, C. R.
Other Authors: King, Adam Philip
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chichester Wiley Blackwell 2010
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Collection: Wiley Online Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Information
  • Bayesian updating
  • Functions
  • Representations
  • Symbols
  • Procedures
  • Computation
  • Architectures
  • Data structures
  • Computing with neurons
  • The nature of learning
  • Learning time and space
  • The modularity of learning
  • Dead reckoning in a neural network
  • Neural models of interval timing
  • The molecular basis of memory.