From computer to brain : foundations of computational neuroscience /

• Main Author: Lytton, William W.
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Springer, �2002.
• Subjects: Computational neuroscience.; COMPUTERS > Enterprise Applications > Business Intelligence Tools.; COMPUTERS > Intelligence (AI) & Semantics.; Brain > physiology.; Neural Networks (Computer); Computational Biology > methods.; Models, Neurological.; Nerve Net > physiology.; Neurons > physiology.; Electronic books.

Biology undergraduates, medical students and life-science graduate students often have limited mathematical skills. Similarly, physics, math and engineering students have little patience for the detailed facts that make up much of biological knowledge. Teaching computational neuroscience as an integ...

Table of Contents:

• Cover
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Contents
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Computational Neuroscience and You
• 3. Basic Neuroscience
• 4. Computer Representations
• 5. The Soul of an Old Machine
• 6. Concept Neurons
• 7. Neural Coding
• 8. Our Friend the Limulus
• 9. Supervised Learning:Delta Rule and Back-Propagation
• 10. Associative Memory Networks
• 11. From Soap to Volts
• 12. Hodgkin-Huxley Model
• 13. Compartment Modeling
• 14. From Artificial Neural Network to Realistic Neural Network
• 15. Neural Circuits
• 16. The Basics
• References
• Glossary.