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Memory and the computational brain : why cognitive science will transform neuroscience / C.R. Gallistel and Adam Philip King.

Title
Memory and the computational brain : why cognitive science will transform neuroscience / C.R. Gallistel and Adam Philip King.
Author
Gallistel, C. R., 1941-
Publication
Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, c2009.

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Additional Authors
King, Adam Philip
Description
xvi, 319 p. : ill.; 26 cm.
Summary
'Memory and the Computational Brain' offers a provocative argument that goes to the heart of neuroscience, proposing that the field can and should benefit from the recent advances of cognitive science and the development of information theory over the course of the last several decades.
Series Statement
Blackwell/Maryland lectures in language and cognition
Uniform Title
Blackwell/Maryland lectures in language and cognition
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [288]-298) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Information -- Bayesian updating -- Functions -- Representations -- Symbols -- Procedures -- Computation -- Architectures -- Data structures -- Computing with neurons -- The nature of learning -- Learning time and space -- The modularity of learning -- Dead reckoning in a neural network -- Neural models of interval timing -- The molecular basis of memory.
ISBN
  • 9781405122870
  • 1405122870
  • 9781405122887 (pbk.)
  • 1405122889 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^2008044683
OCLC
  • 149446951
  • SCSB-10121083
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library