Microcosms of the Brain

What sensorimotor systems reveal about the mind

Szerző: Douglas Tweed

Nyelv:

Kötés: Puha kötésű

Kiadó: Oxford University Press

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40 300 Ft

How can we understand a system as intricate as the human brain? Microcosms of the brain presents a b...

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Szerző

Douglas Tweed

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Puha kötésű

Kiadva

2003

oldal

206

EAN

9780198528937

ISBN

0198528930

Enbook ID

04527344

Kiadó

Oxford University Press

Súly

299

Méretek

156 x 233 x 12

Teljes leírás

How can we understand a system as intricate as the human brain? Microcosms of the brain presents a bold new approach. It argues that the key to understanding brain function lies in the sensorimotor systems - those that gather sensory data such as light and sound, and use them to control action, steering the eyes, head, or limbs. The book shows how these subsystems can serve as microcosms of the brain - small enough to be analyzed but substantial enough to reveal general principles of brain function. By studying these simple systems and simulating them on computers, we can get some answers to the bigger questions about the brain. In ten chapters Douglas Tweed explores ten concepts that may help form a basis for the computerized neuroscience of the future: optimization, computation, complexity, learning, dynamics, interfaces, loops, degrees of freedom, information, and inference. He explains these concepts in simple, non-mathematical language, and shows how they can bring some order to our view of the human brain. Written to be accessible to lay readers as well as students and researchers in the cognitive sciences, this is a book that could dramatically change the way we explore the human mind.

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