edited by G Shaw (UCI, Irvine) & G Palm (Max-Planck Inst. for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen)

This volume consists of 44 classic and important contributions to brain theory before the enormous growth in interest and publications began in 1983. These papers span the topics of fundamental foundations, concepts, analysis and simulation of network dynamics, memory, information processing, and physical spin analogies.

• A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Imminent in Nervous Activity (W McCulloch & W Pitts)
• The Organisation of Neurones: A Co-operative Analogy (B Cragg & H Temperly)
• Properties of a Mass of Cells Capable of Regeneration Pulses (R Beurle)
• Outline of a Theory of Thought Processes and Thinking Machines (E Caianiello)
• A Memory Storage Model Utilizing Spatial Correlation Functions (J Anderson)
• A Theory of Cerebellar Cortex (D Marr)
• Excitations and Inhibitory Interactions in Localized Populations of Model Neurons (H Wilson & J Cowan)
• The Existence of Persistent States in the Brain (W Little)
• A Theory of the Development of Feature Detecting Cells in Visual Cortex (M Nass & L Copper)
• On Associative Memory (G Palm)
• On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblems (A Turing)
• Probabilistics Logics and the Synthesis of Organisms from Unreliable Component (J von Neumann)
• Neural Networks and Physical Systems with Emergent Collective Computational Abilities (J Hopfield)
• and other papers