Principles of neural 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 Laugh...

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Main Authors: Sterling, Peter, 1940- (Author), Laughlin, Simon (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, [2015]
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Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9780262327312
0262327317
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • What engineers know about design
  • Why an animal needs a brain
  • Why a bigger brain?
  • How bigger brains are organized
  • Information processing : from molecules to molecular circuits
  • Information processing in protein circuits
  • Design of neurons
  • How photoreceptors optimize the capture of visual information
  • The fly lamina : an efficient interface for high-speed vision
  • Design of neural circuits : recoding analogue signals to pulsatile
  • Principles of retinal design
  • Beyond the retina : pathways to perception and action
  • Principles of efficient wiring
  • Learning as design/design of learning.