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In Theory of Cortical Plasticity, Nobel Laureate Leon Cooper and his collaborators present a systematic development of the Bienenstock, Cooper and Munro (BCM) theory of synaptic plasticity, and discuss experiments that test both its assumptions and consequences.This insightful book provides an elegant analysis of theoretical structure in neuroscience research, and elucidates the role BCM theory has played in guiding research leading to our present understanding of the mechanisms underlying cortical plasticity.This book has been selected for coverage in: • CC / Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences• Neuroscience Citation Index®• Index to Scientific Book Contents® (ISBC)Contents: Single Cell TheoryObjective Function FormulationCortical Network TheoryReview and Analysis of Second Order Learning RulesReceptive Field Selectivity in a Natural Image EnvironmentOcular Dominance in Normal and Deprived CortexNetworks of Interacting BCM NeuronsExperimental Evidence for the Assumptions and Consequences of the BCM TheoryReadership: Graduate students, academics and researchers in neuroscience, neural networks, neurobiology and mathematical biology.

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