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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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England :
The MIT Press,
[2015]
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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.