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    BIOLOGY AND COMPUTATION: A PHYSICIST'S CHOICE

    edited by H Gutfreund (Hebrew Univ., Israel) & G Toulouse (ENS, France)

    This book provides a comprehensive review of the works in the rapidly evolving field of neural networks and brain studies. Its purpose is two-fold: to help physicists entering this field to get a broader view of the context of the domain, and to help scientists of other disciplines to reach a better understanding of the physicists' contributions within a context of perspectives they can relate to.

    Included in the volume are 68 carefully selected, high quality reprints to provide the volume with both breadth and depth. It is organized into 5 sections and 22 chapters, both the sections and chapters being preceded by introductory comments by the editors.

     
    Contents:
    • Setting the Stage:
      • Forewords
      • Introductory Warnings
      • Physics, Biology, Computation
      • Computer and Brain
      • Logic and Statistics
      • Some Perceptual Facts and Issues
    • Biological Concepts and Methods
      • Computational Goals and Means:
      • Mental Representations
      • Information Theory and Perception
      • Neuroanatomy
      • Aspects of Biocomputation
    • Modes of Computation
      • Processing and Learning:
      • Neural Networks
      • Parallel Algorithms
      • Generalization
      • Learning a Rule
      • Early Sensory Processing
      • Neural Codes
    • Brain Areas, Circuits and Dynamics:
      • Sensory and Motor Pathways
      • Bridges between Psychophysics and Physiology
      • Structures and Functions of Various Brain Areas
      • Representations of Space in the Brain
      • Oscillations and Synchrony
    • Debates and Speculations:
      • Theory-Experiment Interplay
      • Roles of Retroactivation
      • Computational Strategies
      • Language and Consciousness
     
    Readership: Neuroscientists, physicists and biologists.
     
    “This is a valuable collection of important reprints of articles related to neural computation, compiled and edited by two physicists who have made significant personal contributions to the statistical physics of neural networks and other complex strongly interacting many-body systems … The book represents a very valuable cultural cross-field collection to assist scientists in any one of the sub-disciplines of neural networks to appreciate the important aspects of the others. As such it has a clear place in the library of any institution where neuroscience is practiced, by scientists from whatever discipline.”
    D Sherrington

    Network: Computation in Neural Systems, 1995
     
    868pp    Pub. date: Mar 1994  
    ISBN:   978-981-02-1405-0
    981-02-1405-7
       US$172 / £136

     


    868pp    Pub. date: Mar 1994  
    ISBN:   978-981-02-1406-7(pbk)
    981-02-1406-5(pbk)
       US$112 / £84

     


     

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