| Description |
xvi, 514 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Computational neuroscience |
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Computational neuroscience.
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| Contents |
1. Shall we even understand the fly's brain? / Gilles Laurent -- 2. Can we understand the action of brains in natural environments? / Hermann Wagner and Bernhard Gaese -- 3. Hemisphere dominance of brain function - which functions are lateralized and why? / Gunter Ehret -- 4. What is the function of the thalamus? / S. Murray Sherman -- 5. What is a neuronal map : how does it arise, and what is it good for? / J. Leo van Hemmen -- 6. Whast is fed back? / Jean Bullier -- 7. How can the brain be so fast? / Wulfram Gerstner -- 8. What is the neural code? / C. van Vreeswijk -- 9. Are single cortical neurons soloists or are they obedient members of a huge orchestra? / Tal Kenet, Amos Ariell, Misha Tsodysks and Amiram Grinvald -- 10. What is the other 85 percent of V1 doing? / Bruno A. Olshausen and David J. Field -- 11. Which computation runs in visual cortical columns? / Steven W. Zucker -- 12. Are neurons adapted for specific computations? : examples from temporal coding in the auditory system / C. E. Carr, S. Iyer, D. Soares, S. Kalluri and J. Z. Simon -- 13. How is time represented in the brain? / Andreas V. M. Herz -- 14. How general are neural codes in sensory systems? / David McAlpine and Alan R. Palmer -- 15. How does the hearing system perform auditory scene analysis? / Georg M. Klump -- 16. How does our visual system achieve shift and size invariance? / Laurenz Wiskott -- 17. What is reflected in sensory neocortical activity : external stimuli or what the cortex does with them? / Henning Scheich, Frank W. Ohl, Holger Schulze, Andreas Hess and Andre Brechmann -- 18. Do perception and action result from different brain circuits? : the three visual systems hypothesis / Giacomo Rizzolatti and Vittorio Gallese -- 19. What are the projective fields of cortical neurons? / Terrence J. Sejnowski -- 20. How are the features of objects integrated into perceptual wholes that are selected by attention? / John H. Reynolds -- 21. Where are the switches on this thing? / L. F. Abbott -- 22. Synesthesia : what does it tell us about the emergence of qualia, metaphor, abstract thought, and language? / V. S. Ramachandran and Edward M. Hubbhard -- 23. What are the neuronal correlates of consciousness? / Francis C. Crick and Christof Koch |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Neurobiology.
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Biological systems.
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Nervous System Physiological Phenomena.
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Brain -- anatomy & histology.
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Neurosciences.
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Mental Processes -- physiology.
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Brain -- physiology.
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| Author |
Hemmen, J. L. van (Jan Leonard), 1947-
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Sejnowski, Terrence J. (Terrence Joseph)
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| LC no. |
2005003411 |
| ISBN |
9780195148220 hardback alkaline paper |
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0195148223 hardback alkaline paper |
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