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Principles of Neural Design
Taschenbuch von Peter Sterling (u. a.)
Sprache: Englisch

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Two distinguished neuroscientists distil general principles from more than a century of scientific study, "reverse engineering” the brain to understand its design.

Neuroscience research has exploded, with more than fifty thousand neuroscientists applying increasingly advanced methods. A mountain of new facts and mechanisms has emerged. And yet a principled framework to organize this knowledge has been missing. In this book, Peter Sterling and Simon Laughlin, two leading neuroscientists, strive to fill this gap, outlining a set of organizing principles to explain the whys of neural design that allow the brain to compute so efficiently.

Setting out to "reverse engineer” the brain—disassembling it to understand it—Sterling and Laughlin first consider why an animal should need a brain, tracing computational abilities from bacterium to protozoan to worm. They examine bigger brains and the advantages of "anticipatory regulation”; identify constraints on neural design and the need to "nanofy”; and demonstrate the routes to efficiency in an integrated molecular system, phototransduction. They show that the principles of neural design at finer scales and lower levels apply at larger scales and higher levels; describe neural wiring efficiency; and discuss learning as a principle of biological design that includes "save only what is needed.”

Sterling and Laughlin avoid speculation about how the brain might work and endeavor to make sense of what is already known. Their distinctive contribution is to gather a coherent set of basic rules and exemplify them across spatial and functional scales.

Two distinguished neuroscientists distil general principles from more than a century of scientific study, "reverse engineering” the brain to understand its design.

Neuroscience research has exploded, with more than fifty thousand neuroscientists applying increasingly advanced methods. A mountain of new facts and mechanisms has emerged. And yet a principled framework to organize this knowledge has been missing. In this book, Peter Sterling and Simon Laughlin, two leading neuroscientists, strive to fill this gap, outlining a set of organizing principles to explain the whys of neural design that allow the brain to compute so efficiently.

Setting out to "reverse engineer” the brain—disassembling it to understand it—Sterling and Laughlin first consider why an animal should need a brain, tracing computational abilities from bacterium to protozoan to worm. They examine bigger brains and the advantages of "anticipatory regulation”; identify constraints on neural design and the need to "nanofy”; and demonstrate the routes to efficiency in an integrated molecular system, phototransduction. They show that the principles of neural design at finer scales and lower levels apply at larger scales and higher levels; describe neural wiring efficiency; and discuss learning as a principle of biological design that includes "save only what is needed.”

Sterling and Laughlin avoid speculation about how the brain might work and endeavor to make sense of what is already known. Their distinctive contribution is to gather a coherent set of basic rules and exemplify them across spatial and functional scales.

Über den Autor
Peter Sterling and Simon Laughlin
Details
Empfohlen (von): 18
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Fachbereich: Andere Fachgebiete
Genre: Medizin
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 568
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780262534680
ISBN-10: 0262534681
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Sterling, Peter
Laughlin, Simon
Hersteller: MIT Press Ltd
Maße: 228 x 154 x 30 mm
Von/Mit: Peter Sterling (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 09.06.2017
Gewicht: 0,759 kg
preigu-id: 108603922
Über den Autor
Peter Sterling and Simon Laughlin
Details
Empfohlen (von): 18
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Fachbereich: Andere Fachgebiete
Genre: Medizin
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 568
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780262534680
ISBN-10: 0262534681
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Sterling, Peter
Laughlin, Simon
Hersteller: MIT Press Ltd
Maße: 228 x 154 x 30 mm
Von/Mit: Peter Sterling (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 09.06.2017
Gewicht: 0,759 kg
preigu-id: 108603922
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