Large–Scale Neuronal Theories of the Brain (Computational Neuroscience Series) - Hardcover

Koch, Christof

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0262111837 ISBN 13: 9780262111836

Publisher: MIT Press, 1994

Synopsis

Large-Scale Neuronal Theories of the Brain brings together thirteen originalcontributions by some of the top scientists working in neuroscience today. It presents models andtheories that will most likely shape and influence the way we think about the brain, the mind, andinteractions between the two in the years to come. Chapters consider global theories of the brainfrom the bottom up -- providing theories that are based on real nerve cells, their firingproperties, and their anatomical connections. This contrasts with attempts that have been made bypsychologists and by theorists in the artificial intelligence community to understand the brainstrictly from a psychological or computational point of view.The authors encompass a broadbackground, from biophysics and electrophysiology to psychophysics, neurology, and computationalvision. However, all the chapters focus on a common issue: the role of the primate (including human)cerebral cortex in memory, visual perception, focal attention, and awareness.Contributors : HoraceBarlow. Patricia Churchland, V. S. Ramachandran, and Terrence J. Sejnowski. Antonio R. Damasio andHanna Damasio. Robert Desimone, Earl K. Miller, and Leonardo Chelazzi. Christof Koch and FrancisCrick. Rodolfo R. Llinas and Urs Ribary. David Mumford. Tomaso Poggio and Anya Hurlbert. Michael I.Posner and Mary K. Rothbart. Wolf Singer. Charles F. Stevens. Shimon Ullman. David C. Van Essen,Charles W. Anderson, and Bruno A. Olshausen.

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About the Authors

Christof Koch is President and Chief Scientist of the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle, following twenty-seven years as a Professor at the California Institute of Technology. He is the author of Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist (MIT Press), The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach, and other books.

Joel L. Davis is Program Officer, Cognitive, Neural, and Biomolecular Science and Technology Division, Office of Naval Research.

Terrence J. Sejnowski holds the Francis Crick Chair at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and is a Distinguished Professor at the University of California, San Diego. He was a member of the advisory committee for the Obama administration's BRAIN initiative and is President of the Neural Information Processing (NIPS) Foundation. He is the author of The Deep Learning Revolution (MIT Press) and other books.

Tomaso A. Poggio is Eugene McDermott Professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT, where he is also Director of the Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines and Codirector of the Center for Biological and Computational Learning. He is coeditor of Perceptual Learning (MIT Press).

Edition details

• Publisher: MIT Press
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262111837
• ISBN 13: 9780262111836
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 356