Models of the Mind: How Physics, Engineering and Mathematics Have Shaped Our Understanding of the Brain - Hardcover

Lindsay, Grace

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1472966422 ISBN 13: 9781472966421

Publisher: Bloomsbury Sigma, 2021

Synopsis

Explores the value of describing the machinery of neuroscience using the elegant language of mathematics and reveals in full the remarkable fruits of this endeavour.

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About the Author

Grace Lindsay is an Assistant Professor of Psychology and Data Science at New York University.

After completing her PhD in 2018 at the Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at Columbia University, she went on to a postdoctoral fellowship at University College London, where her research focused on building mathematical models exploring sensory processing. Before that, she earned a bachelor's degree in Neuroscience from the University of Pittsburgh, and received a research fellowship to study at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience in Freiburg, Germany. She was awarded a Google PhD Fellowship in Computational Neuroscience in 2016 and has spoken at several international conferences.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Sigma
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1472966422
• ISBN 13: 9781472966421
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 400