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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: William W. LyttonPublisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc. Imprint: Springer-Verlag New York Inc. Edition: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002 Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.688kg ISBN: 9780387955261ISBN 10: 0387955267 Pages: 364 Publication Date: 01 October 2002 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print ![]() This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsPerspectives.- Computational Neuroscience and You.- Basic Neuroscience.- Computers.- Computer Representations.- The Soul of an Old Machine.- Cybernetics.- Concept Neurons.- Neural Coding.- Our Friend the Limulus.- Supervised Learning: Delta Rule and Back-Propagation.- Associative Memory Networks.- Brains.- From Soap to Volts.- Hodgkin-Huxley Model.- Compartment Modeling.- From Artificial Neural Network to Realistic Neural Network.- Neural Circuits.- The Basics.ReviewsFrom the Foreword: In From Computer to Brain: Foundations of Computational Neuroscience, William W. Lytton provides a gentle but rigorous introduction to the art of modeling neurons and neural systems. It is an accessible entry to the methods and approaches used to model the brain at many different levels, ranging from synapses and dendrites to neurons and neural circuits. This book gives a balanced view of the wide range of modeling techniques that are available in a way that is accessible to a wide audience. This is a book that will bring a smile to your face as well as inspire your imagination. -- Terrence J. Sejnowski Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Salk Institute, University of California at San Diego <p>From the Foreword: <br> In From Computer to Brain: Foundations of Computational Neuroscience, William W. Lytton provides a gentle but rigorous introduction to the art of modeling neurons and neural systems. It is an accessible entry to the methods and approaches used to model the brain at many different levels, ranging from synapses and dendrites to neurons and neural circuits. This book gives a balanced view of the wide range of modeling techniques that are available in a way that is accessible to a wide audience. This is a book that will bring a smile to your face as well as inspire your imagination. <br>-- Terrence J. Sejnowski<br>Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Salk Institute, University of California at San Diego <br> From the Foreword: ""In From Computer to Brain: Foundations of Computational Neuroscience, William W. Lytton provides a gentle but rigorous introduction to the art of modeling neurons and neural systems. It is an accessible entry to the methods and approaches used to model the brain at many different levels, ranging from synapses and dendrites to neurons and neural circuits. This book gives a balanced view of the wide range of modeling techniques that are available in a way that is accessible to a wide audience. This is a book that will bring a smile to your face as well as inspire your imagination."" -- Terrence J. Sejnowski Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Salk Institute, University of California at San Diego From the Foreword: In From Computer to Brain: Foundations of Computational Neuroscience, William W. Lytton provides a gentle but rigorous introduction to the art of modeling neurons and neural systems. It is an accessible entry to the methods and approaches used to model the brain at many different levels, ranging from synapses and dendrites to neurons and neural circuits. This book gives a balanced view of the wide range of modeling techniques that are available in a way that is accessible to a wide audience. This is a book that will bring a smile to your face as well as inspire your imagination. -- Terrence J. SejnowskiHoward Hughes Medical Institute, Salk Institute, University of California at San Diego Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |